Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who worked with the poor in the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta) wore a simple white sari with three blue stripes on the borders, one thicker than the rest.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for great development, greater riches and so on that children ...

And Mother Teresa, who created the Missionaries of Charity and dedicated her life to caring for the poor and ill, had recently been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. “Mary Ellen recognized this ...

“The poor are very great people ... there is an element of sacrifice involved. Blessed Mother Teresa described the payoff for confronting the fear of that sacrifice as part of her statement ...

Small of stature, rocklike in faith, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was entrusted with the mission of proclaiming God’s thirsting love for humanity, especially for the poorest of the poor.

Journalist Christopher Hitchens, who wrote a book criticising the “cult” of Mother Teresa, quoted her as saying: “There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot ...

Mother Teresa had this to say when she visited Japan in 1981. "I think many people in Japan don't know the poor of the country. There are poverties - spiritual poverties also.

But she knew that winning this glittering and lucrative award would help the poor, who were her concern. … Mother Teresa gave a most unusual Nobel lecture. Simply yet profoundly, she talked ...

Thousands of people gathered in heavy rain on Saturday outside the headquarters of the Roman Catholic order founded by Mother Teresa nearly 50 years ago to help the poorest of Calcutta's poor.