Best 100 Mother Teresa Quotes 2024

Best 100 Mother Teresa Quotes 2024

Mother Teresa, originally named Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun and missionary who dedicated her life to serving the poor. Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, now North Macedonia. Known for her compassion and selflessness, Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950, an organization that provides aid to those in need around the world. Received numerous awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, gaining international acclaim for his humanitarian work.

1. Spread love everywhere you go.

—Mother Teresa

2. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

—Mother Teresa

3. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

—Mother Teresa

4. The greatest science in the world, in heaven and on earth, is love.

—Mother Teresa

5. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

—Mother Teresa

6. Peace begins with a smile.

—Mother Teresa

7. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

—Mother Teresa

8. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

—Mother Teresa

9. Intense love does not measure; it just gives.

—Mother Teresa

10. The success of love is in the loving; it is not in the result of loving.

—Mother Teresa

11. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

—Mother Teresa

12. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

—Mother Teresa

13. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

—Mother Teresa

14. God doesn’t require us to succeed; He only requires that we try.

—Mother Teresa

15. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

—Mother Teresa

16. Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

—Mother Teresa

17. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put into the action.

—Mother Teresa

18. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

—Mother Teresa

19. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

—Mother Teresa

20. Be happy in the moment; that’s enough. Each moment is all we need; not more.

—Mother Teresa

21. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

—Mother Teresa

22. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

—Mother Teresa

23. It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

—Mother Teresa

24. Let us more and more insist on raising funds for love, kindness, understanding, of peace.

—Mother Teresa

25. Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

—Mother Teresa

26. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

—Mother Teresa

27. Do not think that love, to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

—Mother Teresa

28. I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?

—Mother Teresa

29. Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.

—Mother Teresa

30. I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

—Mother Teresa

31. If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

—Mother Teresa

32. Words that do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

—Mother Teresa

33. It’s not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

—Mother Teresa

34. 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

35. God doesn’t look at how much we do, but at how much love we do it.

—Mother Teresa

36. A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love.

—Mother Teresa

37. There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.

—Mother Teresa

38. We need to express our love, not just feel it.

—Mother Teresa

39. God has not called me to be successful; He has called me to be faithful.

—Mother Teresa

40. The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

—Mother Teresa

41. Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same—with charity, you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.

—Mother Teresa

42. God will never permit any troubles to come upon us unless He has a specific plan by which great blessings can come out of the difficulty.

—Mother Teresa

43. Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

—Mother Teresa

44. I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

—Mother Teresa

45. We fear the future because we are wasting the today.

—Mother Teresa

46. 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

47. We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.

—Mother Teresa

48. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

—Mother Teresa

49. Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

—Mother Teresa

50. If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers.

—Mother Teresa

51. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

—Mother Teresa

52. I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

—Mother Teresa

53. When you know how much God is in love with you, then you can only live your life radiating that love.

—Mother Teresa

54. If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

—Mother Teresa

55. 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

56. The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion because it is a direct war, a direct killing – direct murder by the mother herself.

—Mother Teresa

57. Holiness is not the luxury of the few; it is a simple duty for you and me.

—Mother Teresa

58. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

—Mother Teresa

59. In the silence of the heart, God speaks.

—Mother Teresa

60. Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

—Mother Teresa

61. 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

62. I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

—Mother Teresa

63. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace; we need love and compassion.

—Mother Teresa

64. The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it’s the logic of love.

—Mother Teresa

65. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do but how much love we put in that action.

—Mother Teresa

66. Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three-quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.

—Mother Teresa

67. Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

—Mother Teresa

68. Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever

a person needs at the moment.

—Mother Teresa

69. Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.

—Mother Teresa

70. I do not pray for success; I ask for faithfulness.

—Mother Teresa

71. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace.

—Mother Teresa

72. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

—Mother Teresa

73. 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

74. If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

—Mother Teresa

75. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace; we need love and compassion.

—Mother Teresa

76. Live simply so others may simply live.

—Mother Teresa

77. If you 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

78. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

—Mother Teresa

79. Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your heart to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

—Mother Teresa

80. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

—Mother Teresa

81. The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

—Mother Teresa

82. We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked, and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for is the greatest. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

—Mother Teresa

83. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

—Mother Teresa

84. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

—Mother Teresa

85. Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

—Mother Teresa

86. True love is giving and giving until it hurts.

—Mother Teresa

87. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

—Mother Teresa

88. Let us more and more insist on raising funds for love, kindness, understanding, of peace.

—Mother Teresa

89. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

—Mother Teresa

90. The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it’s the logic of love.

—Mother Teresa

91. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

—Mother Teresa

92. 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

93. Do not think that love, to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

—Mother Teresa

94. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

—Mother Teresa

95. I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?

—Mother Teresa

96. Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.

—Mother Teresa

97. I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

—Mother Teresa

98. If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

—Mother Teresa

99. Words that do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

—Mother Teresa

100. It’s not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

—Mother Teresa

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