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War & Peace Quote by Mother Teresa

"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given"

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Mother Teresa is doing something sly here: she’s fundraising without sounding like she’s fundraising. By calling love, kindness, understanding, and peace “funds,” she repurposes the language of budgets and donors into a moral ledger. The move is rhetorical judo. Instead of arguing that compassion deserves resources, she argues that compassion is the resource, and money is merely the downstream symptom of a rightly ordered life.

The subtext is both spiritual and strategic. Spiritually, she leans on a familiar Christian hierarchy of values: seek God first, trust the rest to follow. Strategically, it lets her pressure an audience without scolding them about greed. If you’re rich, you’re invited to see your wealth as less impressive than your capacity for mercy. If you’re poor, you’re told you’re not disqualified from giving; you can “raise funds” in the currency you already possess. It’s a democratizing gesture that also keeps the institution of charity from collapsing into a cash transaction.

Context matters: Mother Teresa’s public image was built in a late-20th-century media ecosystem hungry for saintly clarity amid Cold War anxiety and widening inequality. This line fits that moment: a clean, portable theology for a world of donors, cameras, and crises. It reassures benefactors that generosity won’t ruin them, while quietly insisting the real scarcity is not money but tenderness.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Teresa, Mother. (2026, January 15). Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/let-us-more-and-more-insist-on-raising-funds-of-24932/

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Teresa, Mother. "Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/let-us-more-and-more-insist-on-raising-funds-of-24932/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/let-us-more-and-more-insist-on-raising-funds-of-24932/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

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Mother Teresa (August 26, 1910 - September 5, 1997) was a Leader from Albania.

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