Who is Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun who, in 1950, founded the Missionaries of Charity. Although her passport name was Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, she was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒiu]) in Üsküb—now Skopje, capital of North Macedonia. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.

After Mother Teresa founded her religious congregation, it grew to have over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries as of 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis. The congregation also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clini...
Read Full Biography

---

Mother Teresa Poems

Read All Poems

---

Mother Teresa Quotes

• The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
• Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
• 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.
• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Read All Quotes

---

Comments about Mother Teresa

• Farhanvvip04: 18.spread love everywhere you go. let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. -mother teresa
• Jaspergwendolyn: "i alone cannot change the world, but i can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples." -mother teresa
• Jarviscross4: "i alone cannot change the world, but i can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples." -mother teresa
• Nonaprisa: “if you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – mother teresa
• Aljnoooob854: "let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." — mother teresa

Read All Comments