Mother Teresa Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Children, Pain

• There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.

  Mother Teresa

  Pain, Powerful, Healing

• There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Loneliness, Greed

• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Hunger For Love, People

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

• In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

  Mother Teresa

  Depression, Night, Light

• 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

  Beautiful, Passion, Thinking

  "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice". Book by Christopher Hitchens, p. 11, 1995.

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

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Sick, Suffering

• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Suffering, Disease, Realizing

• We are at Jesus' disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work in the street, if he wants you to clean the toilets all day, that's all right, everything is all right. We must say, "I belong to you. You can do whatever you like." And this ..is our strength, and this is the joy of the Lord.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Sick, Joy

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Hands, Suffering, Devil

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1990). “Total Surrender”

• Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

  Mother Teresa

  Pain, War, Loss

• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Mean, Knowing, Suffering

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

• I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Thinking, Feelings

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

• It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another- not in the school, not from the teacher, but from you. It is very important that you share with your children the joy of that smile. There will be misunderstandings; every family has its cross, its suffering. Always be the first to forgive with a smile. Be cheerful, be happy.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Teacher, Children

• People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but there is also great hunger for God and love for each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, People, Giving

• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Passion, Suffering

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.49, New World Library

• 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

  Family, Home, Thinking

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

• You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. Jesus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me. Clear.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Jesus, Children

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

  Mother Teresa

  Mean, Generosity, Suffering

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

  Mother Teresa

  Teamwork, Volunteer, Suffering

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

  Mother Teresa

  Broken, Touching, Suffering

• You can and you must expect suffering.

  Mother Teresa

  Work, Suffering

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, Jesus, People

• Our hours of adoration will be special hours of reparation for sins, and intercession for the needs of the whole world, exposing the sin-sick and suffering humanity to the healing, sustaining and transforming rays of Jesus, radiating from the Eucharist.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Healing, Sick

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

• The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Passion, Humility

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