MOTHER TERESA QUOTES
10 of the best Mother Teresa quotes
These Mother Teresa quotes show how much this inspiring woman loved those the rest of the world abandoned. The words of Mother Teresa show she really knew what love is by providing help to the poorest of the poor.
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910, of Albanian descent. At the age of 12 she felt called by God to be a missionary. She became a nun at 21 after three years in a convent in Ireland, and went to teach at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta. She never saw her mother and sister again. She was affected her so deeply by the misery and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls that in 1948 she received permission to leave the convent school and dedicate herself to working among the penniless, destitute and dying in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she started an open-air school for slum children, and her life’s work began. In 1950 she started her own order "The Missionaries of Charity", which became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI in 1965. The Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world with the principal task to love and care for those nobody else was prepared to look after. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Read a famous Quote of Mother Teresa when you are feeling low:
- The actions and words of Mother Teresa make us feel a little lighter, a little better for the good that she did in this world, and how she inspires us to be better too.
- "It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving." This quotation from Mother Teresa exemplifies her whole life, and is a great guide for each of us I think.
- When you read any of these Mother Teresa quotes you begin to realise how fortunate and blessed you really are.
- A single Mother Teresa quote can quickly brighten your day.
- Mother Teresa expands our understanding of true love in the life she led and the words she spoke.
