Mother Teresa Quotes


There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.


Citations

Teresa, Mother. No Greater Love. Edited by Becky Benenate and Joseph Durepos, New World Library, 1997, p. 88.

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Mother Teresa
  • Born: August 26, 1910
  • Died: September 5, 1997
  • Nationality: Albanian
  • Profession: Missionary, Humanitarian, Nun

Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.