Mother Teresa Quotations

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

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

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

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

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

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

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.

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.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because 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.

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

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.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

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

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

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

We can cure physical diesases 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>

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

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.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a 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, singit. 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 life, fight for it!

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

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

We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

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

Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house...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.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.

We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

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

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody

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

I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

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

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.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

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?

What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others. ...

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.

You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.

Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile.

God Is Using Gianna Jessen To Remind The World, That Each Human Being Is Precious To Him.

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

Life's a song,sing it

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

We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.

By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.

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. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.

To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, our touch, in what we write and say, in the way we walk and the way we receive and in the way we serve.

Be a living expression of God's kindness.

It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts...

Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.

We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.

Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.

Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.

The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.