Mother Teresa Suffering Quotations

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.

I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

You can't do God's work without suffering.

You can and you must expect suffering.

Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.

Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today.

As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.