Mother Teresa Quotes About Hunger

Quotes about: Hunger

• 

  The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Positive

  Interview with Edward W. Desmond, Time magazine, December 04, 1989.

• When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

• Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Country, Children

• There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Pain

• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

• There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Relationship, Appreciation

• God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

  Mother Teresa

  Compassion, People, Giving

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

• The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Peace, Loneliness

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

• 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

• It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

• Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hands, Hunger For Love

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

• 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”

• Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

  Mother Teresa

  Sad, Sympathy, Thinking

  Speech by the President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at the Birth Centenary Celebrations of Mother Teresa, pib.nic.in. August 30, 2010.

• There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ---Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

  Mother Teresa

  Pain, Kindness, Loneliness

• When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Sad, Hurt

  Teresa (Mother), Roger (frère) (1986). “Meditations on the Way of the Cross”, Burns & Oates

• Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandonded, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Husband, Clothes

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

• 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

• We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the joy and the energy to do what they are doing?' The Eucharist involves more than just receiving; it also involves satisfying the hunger of Christ. He says, 'Come to Me.' He is hungry for souls.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Joy, Soul

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

• I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

  Mother Teresa

  Responsibility, Looks, Poverty

• The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

  Mother Teresa

  Loneliness, Hunger For Love, Hunger And Poverty

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

• 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

  Mother Teresa

  Needs, Poverty, Bread

• When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Loneliness, Mean

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

• He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Loneliness, Hunger

  Teresa (Mother), Roger (frère) (1986). “Meditations on the Way of the Cross”, Burns & Oates

• Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

  Mother Teresa

  Real, Loneliness, Hunger

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

• Many people are very, very concerned with the children in India, with the children in Africa where quite a number die, maybe of malnutrition, of hunger and so on, but millions are dying deliberately by the will of the mother. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today. Because if a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you kill me -- there is nothing between.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, Numbers

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.97, Image

Page 1 of 2

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin