Mother Teresa Quotes on Love (28 Quotes)


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

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

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

    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

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


    There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

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

    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.

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

    Good works are links that form a chain of love.

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

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

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

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

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

    Anyway People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for some underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

    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.

    There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.


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

    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.

    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.

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

    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.

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

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

    Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts then it is real and pure.

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


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