Quotes by St Teresa of Calcutta

As St Teresa of Calcutta is being canonized tomorrow, I share with you some of her most famous quotes. They are all simple quotes, but full of thought and meaning.

It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

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.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

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

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Two Saints reunite in heaven.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

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.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.