Quotes about Poverty
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
— Mother Teresa
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
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
— Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty.
— Mother Teresa
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
There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
— Mother Teresa
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.
— Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.
— Mother Teresa
There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
— Mother Teresa
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.
— Mother Teresa
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
We have a thousand machines for making war but none for making peace. We have computers and iPhone apps that can make millions out of a tiny change in exchange rates, but none that can rescue the poorest countries from their plight. We know how to make Internet pornography, but not how to repair marriages. The very objectivity or neutrality of scientific knowledge as commonly conceived has played into the hands of the gods we secretly worship.
— NT Wright