Mother Teresa Quotes (150) Spiritual Sayings
About the Author: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu and commonly known
as Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an ethnic Albanian, Indian Roman Catholic nun. Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries. They run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; children's and family counseling programmes; orphanages; and schools. Members of the order must adhere to the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, and the fourth vow, to give "Wholehearted and Free service to the poorest of the poor". She was the recipient of numerous honours including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. In late 2003, she was beatified, the third step toward possible sainthood, giving her the title "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta". A second miracle credited to Mother Teresa is required before she can be recognised as a saint by the Catholic Church. She was admired by many; in 1999, a poll of Americans ranked her first in Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century. See website for more info - http://www.motherteresa.org/
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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
― Mother Teresa
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
― 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
“Peace begins with a smile..”
― 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 am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I 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
“Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
― 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. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
― Mother Teresa
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
― Mother Teresa
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
― Mother Teresa
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
― Mother Teresa
“If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway…
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.”
― Mother Teresa
“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
― Mother Teresa
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
― Mother Teresa
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
― Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
― Mother Teresa
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa
“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
― Mother Teresa
“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
― Mother Teresa
“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.”
― Mother Teresa
“Live simply so others may simply live.”
― Mother Teresa
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
― Mother Teresa
“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
― Mother Teresa, A Simple Path: Mother Teresa
“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
― Mother Teresa
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
― 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
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
― Mother Teresa
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
― Mother Teresa
“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
― Mother Teresa
“A life not lived for others is not a life.”
― Mother Teresa
“If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.”
― Mother Teresa
“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
― Mother Teresa
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
― Mother Teresa
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
― Mother Teresa
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
― Mother Teresa
“The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”
― Mother Teresa
“If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”
― Mother Teresa
“Work without love is slavery.”
― Mother Teresa
“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
― 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
“Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.”
― Mother Teresa
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
― Mother Teresa
“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
― Mother Teresa, A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations
“The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace”
― Mother Teresa
“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”
― Mother Teresa
“Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.”
― Mother Teresa
“When you don't have anything, then you have everything.”
― Mother Teresa
“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.”
― Mother Teresa
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
― Mother Teresa
“Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”
― Mother Teresa
“Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.”
― Mother Teresa
“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”
― Mother Teresa
“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”
― Mother Teresa
“Life is a game, play it.”
― Mother Teresa
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”
― Mother Teresa
“I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.” ― Mother Teresa
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
― Mother Teresa
“Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.”
― Mother Teresa
“Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.”
― Mother Teresa
“Intense love does not measure it just gives. ”
― Mother Teresa
“Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.”
― Mother Teresa
“The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.”
― Mother Teresa
“Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”
― Mother Teresa
“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
― Mother Teresa
“There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.” ― Mother Teresa
“Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.”
― 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
“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
“Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.” ― Mother Teresa
“Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.”
― Mother Teresa
“We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.”
― Mother Teresa
“I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.” ― Mother Teresa
“It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”
― Mother Teresa
“I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus. ”
― Mother Teresa
“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
“To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
― Mother Teresa
“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”
― Mother Teresa
“Give, but give until it hurts.”
― Mother Teresa
“There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.”
― Mother Teresa
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.”
― Mother Teresa
“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”
― Mother Teresa
“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?” ― Mother Teresa
“We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action”
― Mother Teresa
“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.”
― Mother Teresa
“We are all pencils in the hand of God.”
― Mother Teresa
“Do small things, with great love.”
― Mother Teresa
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody”
― Mother Teresa
“We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa
“Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.”
― 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
“The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
― Mother Teresa
“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.”
― Mother Teresa
“In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.”
― Mother Teresa
“If a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me - there is nothing between.” ― Mother Teresa
“Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
― Mother Teresa
“When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.”
― Mother Teresa
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”
― Mother Teresa
“One filled with joy preaches without preaching.”
― 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
“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
“Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.”
― Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa: In My Own Words
“He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.”
― Mother Teresa
“Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
― Mother Teresa
“There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.” ― Mother Teresa
“The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.”
― Mother Teresa
“Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.”
― Mother Teresa
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
― Mother Teresa
“In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”
― Mother Teresa
“There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.” ― Mother Teresa
“It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa”
― Mother Teresa
“God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.”
― Mother Teresa
“Why can't there be love that never gets tired?”
― Mother Teresa
“When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.”
― Mother Teresa
“Everything that is not given is lost.”
― Mother Teresa
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One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.”
― Mother Teresa
“The biggest diease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody.”
― Mother Teresa
“Joy is strength.”
― Mother Teresa
“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.”
― Mother Teresa
“Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
― Mother Teresa
“When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.” ― Mother Teresa
“Never be so busy as not to think of others.”
― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living
“As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves but does not speak … I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have free hand.” ― Mother Teresa
“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”
― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living
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