Mother Teresa

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

Mother Teresa

I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.

Mother Teresa

I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, ‘Why do you do this?’ I said, ‘Because I love you.’

Mother Teresa

I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless – to be God’s Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.

Mother Teresa

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.

Mother Teresa

I think I’m more difficult than critical.

Mother Teresa

I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.

Mother Teresa

I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

Mother Teresa

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.

Mother Teresa

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

Mother Teresa