Mother Teresa Quotes

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Live simply so others may simply live.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – 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

 

 

 

“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Good works are links that form a chain of love.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

 

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don’t know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ Rather he will ask, ‘How much LOVE did you put into what you did?’” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“I think I’m more difficult than critical.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

 

“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

 

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

 

“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” – 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

 

 

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

 

“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does NOT determine the value of what we have done.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

 

“There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“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.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Please choose the way of peace. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, or never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don’t understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it? I don’t understand.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“We fear the future because we are wasting today.” – Mother Teresa

 

 

“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.” – Mother Teresa

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