Mother Teresa Quotes


In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.


Citations

Mother Teresa. A Simple Path. Ballantine Books, 1995, p. 89.

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Mother Teresa
  • Born: August 26, 1910
  • Died: September 5, 1997
  • Nationality: Albanian
  • Profession: Missionary, Humanitarian, Nun

Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.