100 Best Mother Teresa Quotes

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

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels - loved and wanted. - Mother Teresa

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. - Mother Teresa

Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. - Mother Teresa

Even if you can't do great things, you can do small things in a great way. - Mother Teresa

God has not called me to be successful. He has called me to be faithful. - Mother Teresa

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. - Mother Teresa

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

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. - 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 does not measure; it just gives. - Mother Teresa

Make us worthy, Lord, to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. - Mother Teresa

Never be so busy as not to think of others. - Mother Teresa

Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity to peace. - Mother Teresa

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. - Mother Teresa

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself. - Mother Teresa

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. - Mother Teresa

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. - Mother Teresa

We can do no great things - only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa

When you don't have anything, then you have everything. - Mother Teresa

You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. - Mother Teresa

A life not lived for others is not a life. - Mother Teresa

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. - Mother Teresa

Do not be afraid to love until it hurts. - Mother Teresa

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. - Mother Teresa

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 own weakness. - 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

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. - 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. - Mother Teresa

Love is a one-way street. It always moves away from self in the direction of the other. - Mother Teresa

Maybe I don't speak their language, but I can smile. - Mother Teresa

Never let anyone come to you without coming away better and happier. - Mother Teresa

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. - Mother Teresa

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

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love. - 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. - Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. - 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

You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. - Mother Teresa

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. - 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 be afraid to say yes to Jesus. - Mother Teresa

Every work of love brings a person face to face with God. - Mother Teresa

God still loves the world through you and through me today. - Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. - Mother Teresa

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

Let us make our homes real places of love, so that no one will ever know loneliness. - Mother Teresa

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

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. - Mother Teresa