Mother Teresa

Quotes

• “My initial impression was of all the photographs and footage I've ever seen of Belsen and places like that, because all ...”
• “I do not know anything about Charles Keating's work or his business or the matters you are dealing with. I only know he ...”
• “Mother Teresa was a true patriot. A great Albanian. She showed the world how to help the poor and devoted her life to th...”
• “I don't know what to say since I don't know what is happening [in Albania]. I can say only one thing. My Albanian people...”
• “This is a variant or paraphrase of The Paradoxical Commandments, by Kent M. Keith, student activist, first composed in 1...”
• “Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a nex...”
• “The picture, and its context, announce Mother Teresa as what she is: a religious fundamentalist, a political operative, ...”
• “Mother Teresa of Calcutta actually said, in her speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, 'The greatest destroyer of peace...”
• “Be kind to each other in your homes. Be kind to those who surround you. I prefer that you make mistakes in kindness rath...”
• “Undated letter indicating that, at least at times, Mother Teresa's theological doubts were strong enough to be regarded ...”
• “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He...”
• “In: , Mother Teresa of Calcutta, A Gift For God: Prayers and Meditations, New York: Harper & Row, 1975. p. 61; Cited in:...”
• “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyo...”
• “I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we w...”
• “I am so pleased with all the good work you are doing for world peace and for people in so many countries. May we continu...”
• “Paul W. Turley, Deputy District Attorney Los Angeles, in response to Mother Teresa's request for clemency for Charles Ke...”
• “We are misunderstood, we are misrepresented, we are misreported. We are not nurses, we are not doctors, we are not teach...”
• “As quoted in Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (2007) by Brian Kolodiejchuk <!-- *If I ever become a saint, I will surely ...”
• “She is truly a living saint. She serves as a source of inspiration for me to this day... She is unique in that all her r...”
• “Remarks to Mengistu Haile Mariam during the 1984-85 Ethiopian famine, as quoted by Dawit Wolde Giorgis in Red Tears: War...”
• “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...”
• “Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, list...”
• “I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No. I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand...”
• “Letter to Michael van der Peet (September 1979), quoted in "Mother Teresa Did Not Feel Christ's Presence for Last Half o...”
• “Letter to Judge Lance Ito, requesting clemency for Charles Keating (January 18 1992), as quoted by Christopher Hitchens ...”
• “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if the drop was not in the ocean, I think the ...”
• “As quoted in Mother Teresa's Reaching Out In Love - Stories told by Mother Teresa, Compiled and Edited by Edward Le Joly...”
• “Nexhmije Hoxha, widow of Enver Hoxha, as quoted in Riccardo Orizio, Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators, ...”
• “Germaine Greer, quoted in Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader, also quoted in Butler's Sain...”
• “As quoted in Love Until It Hurts: A Tribute to Mother Teresa and the work of the men and women of the Missionaries of Ch...”
• “When receiving the Nobel peace price in 1979. As quoted from Hitchens, C. (2012). The missionary position: Mother Theres...”
• “To Navin Chawla, her authorized biographer, as reported in a speech of tribute delivered at UNESCO on the centenary of h...”
• “Dr Fox, editor of THE LANCET, in The Lancet, Sept 1994. quoted from Hitchens C The Missionary Position, Mother Theresa i...”
• “As quoted in Love, A Fruit Always In Season : Daily Meditations from the Words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1987) edite...”
• “I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beauti...”
• “I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a bett...”
• “I've never seen the poor people being so familiar with their head of state as they were with her. It was a beautiful les...”
• “Mother Teresa in Emergency Rule period, 1975-77; quoted in: David Aikman (1998), Great souls: six who changed the centur...”
• “Christopher Hitchens, "Mommie Dearest: The pope beatifies Mother Teresa, a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud.", Sla...”
• “Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love....The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.”
• “Quoted in: Charlotte Gray. Mother Teresa: Her Mission to Serve God by Caring for the Poor. G. Stevens, (1988), p. 53”
• “Lazar Bojaxhui, as quoted in Marlene T. Elias (1999), A Brief History Of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa and Me”
• “1993 interview included in Conversations with Isabel Allende (1999), translated from Spanish by Virginia Invernizzi”
• “Mother Teresa, John Paul II, and the Fast-Track Saints" (22 October 2007) by Michael Parenti, at CommonDreams.org,”
• “Dawit Wolde Giorgis, in Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia, (The Red Sea Press Inc. 1989), p. 212”
• “Peggy Noonan, "Still, Small Voice," Crisis, (1 February 1998) (account of the National Prayer Breakfast speech)”
• “On meeting Michèle Duvalier, quoted by Christopher Hitchens in The Missionary Position, (Verso, 1995), page 5”
• “Missionaries of Charity Active and Contemplative Sisters with U.S. contact information (CMSWR member page)”
• “Statement of 1977, as quoted in Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2011) by Susan Ratcliffe, p. 373”
• “As quoted in Louis Zanga "Mother Teresa's visit to Albania", Radio Free Europe Research, (23 August 1989)”