Mother Teresa Quotes on Poverty (9 Quotes)


    Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

    The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

    Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.

    We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

    We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God I will strip my heart of all created things I will live in poverty and detachment I will renounce my will, my inclinations


    It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

    There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.


    Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.


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