Mother Teresa famous quotes

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.
-- Mother Teresa

#Thinking #Differences #People

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

#Stars #Flower #Moving

Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.
-- Mother Teresa

#Heart #Yesterday #Gone

Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.
-- Mother Teresa

#Hurt #Mercy #Reach Out

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
-- Mother Teresa

#Self Esteem #Helping Others #Numbers

We don't need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.
-- Mother Teresa

#Strength #Home #Gun

The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family
-- Mother Teresa

#Children #World

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
-- Mother Teresa

#Success #God #Moving Forward

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love #Life #Positive

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.
-- Mother Teresa

#Giving #Wonderful #Poor

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
-- Mother Teresa

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
-- Mother Teresa

#Inspirational #Relationship #Sad

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love #Marriage #Home

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love #Jesus #World

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-- Mother Teresa

#Inspirational #Friendship #Positive

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love #Family #Marriage

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love #Inspirational #Life

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

#Love #Positive #Marriage

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love #Inspiration #Giving

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

#Love #Grandchildren #Rich

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
-- Mother Teresa

#Birthday #Peace #Positivity

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.
-- Mother Teresa

#Gun #Compassion #Use

The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.
-- Mother Teresa

#Jesus #Action #Praying

As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.
-- Mother Teresa

#Real #Home #Angel

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
-- Mother Teresa

#Forgiveness #Mother #Forgiving

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

#Mean #Changing The World #Feels

God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.
-- Mother Teresa

#Numbers #Purpose #God Love

If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love You #Heart #Thinking

Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.
-- Mother Teresa

#Life Is #Worthwhile

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

#Love #Happiness #Inspiring

There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ: Jesus is my God, Jesus is my Spouse, Jesus is my Life, Jesus is my only Love, Jesus is my All in All; Jesus is my Everything.
-- Mother Teresa

#Jesus #Different #Way

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
-- Mother Teresa

#Compassion #Love Is #Fruit

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.
-- Mother Teresa

#Family #Home #Thinking

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

#Inspirational #Change #Positive

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

#Happiness #Smile #Beautiful

We have only today. Let us begin
-- Mother Teresa

#Today

God does not demand that I be succesful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.
-- Mother Teresa

#Faithful #Important #Demand

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.
-- Mother Teresa

#Country #Teaching #People

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
-- Mother Teresa

#Inspiration #Motherhood #Aids

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love #Thinking #Order

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.
-- Mother Teresa

#Hurt #Pain #Real

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

#Love #Heaven #Poverty

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.
-- Mother Teresa

#Ends #Dear Friend #Dear

I see God in every human being
-- Mother Teresa

#Humans

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

#Jesus #Doe #Holiness

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
-- Mother Teresa

#Prayer #Fall #Heart

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
-- Mother Teresa

#Happiness #Faith #Being Happy

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

#Inspirational #Life #Leadership

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love #Inspirational #Heartbreak

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
-- Mother Teresa

#Inspirational #Smile #Kindness

Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love #Share

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love #Hurt #Real

Like Mary, let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace when, at the annunciation, she received Jesus. Like her, we too become full of grace every time we receive Holy Communion. It is the same Jesus whom she received and whom we receive at Mass. As soon as we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, let us go in haste to give Him to our sisters, to our poor, to the sick, to the dying, to the lepers, to the unwanted, and the unloved. By this we make Jesus present in the world today.
-- Mother Teresa

#Jesus #Giving #Sick

Do you really know the living Jesus - not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard the loving words He speaks to you?... The devil may try to use the hurts of life, and sometimes our own mistakes - to make you feel it is impossible that Jesus really loves you, is really cleaving to you. This is a danger for all of us. And so sad, because it is completely the opposite of what Jesus is really wanting, waiting to tell you. Not only that He loves you, but even more - He longs for you.
-- Mother Teresa

#Faith #Jesus #Hurt

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love #Inspirational #Relationship

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

#Mother #Giving #Care

Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.
-- Mother Teresa

#Hands #People #Understanding

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

#Love #Motherhood #Oil

Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.
-- Mother Teresa

#Peace #Simple #Accomplish

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.
-- Mother Teresa

#Powerful #Healing #Light

If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?
-- Mother Teresa

#Thinking #Tanks #Needs

There is no greater sickness in the world today than the lack of love.
-- Mother Teresa

#Mother #World #Lack Of Love

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

#Lonely #Women #Loneliness

Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
-- Mother Teresa

#Grace #Progress #Holiness

If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
-- Mother Teresa

#Beautiful #Lonely #Home

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.
-- Mother Teresa

#Heart #Home #Love Is

If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World. But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love You #Eye #Tongue

If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.
-- Mother Teresa

#Would Be #World

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-- Mother Teresa

#Thinking #People #Judging

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.
-- Mother Teresa

#World #Purpose #Great Things

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

#Love #Inspirational #Inspiring

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.
-- Mother Teresa

#Letting Go #Christmas Eve #God Love

Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.
-- Mother Teresa

#Religious #Faithful #Littles

Live simply so others may simply live.
-- Mother Teresa

#Life #Helping Others #Simplicity

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
-- Mother Teresa

#Oil #Charity #Lamps

People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.
-- Mother Teresa

#People #May #Littles

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
-- Mother Teresa

#Jealous #People #Finding Happiness

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
-- Mother Teresa

#Thoughtful #Today #May

You know my God. My God is called love
-- Mother Teresa

Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.
-- Mother Teresa

#Children #Giving #Abortion

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.
-- Mother Teresa

#Home #Compassion #Forgiving

To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
-- Mother Teresa

#Inspirational Love #Love Is #Punishment

Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.
-- Mother Teresa

#Love #Hurt #Jesus

Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start
-- Mother Teresa

#Home #Our Love

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
-- Mother Teresa

#Dust #Hem #Stains

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

#Mother #Humility #Humble

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?
-- Mother Teresa

#Broken Heart #Children #Husband

We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family
-- Mother Teresa

#Home #Pro Life #Humanity

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

#Nature #Stars #Flower

Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs.
-- Mother Teresa

#Worry #People #Needs

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.
-- Mother Teresa

#Mother #Believe #Praying

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
-- Mother Teresa

#War #Home #Joy

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

#Motivational #Wise #Peace

What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us.
-- Mother Teresa

#Inspiration #Soul #Matter

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
-- Mother Teresa

#Faith #Light #Giving

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

#Life #Smile #Thoughtful

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.
-- Mother Teresa

#Thoughtful #Giving #Cheerful

We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.
-- Mother Teresa

#Giving #Littles

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

#Love #Inspirational #Smile

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

#Inspirational #Prayer #Heart