Mother Teresa Poverty Quotations

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

The #‎ poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.