Mother Teresa Quotes (91 Quotes)

Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.

If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.

The greatest threat to world peace is abortion.

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

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

I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

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.

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.

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.

Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.

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.

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

God doesn't require us to succeed he only requires that you try.

We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God I will strip my heart of all created things I will live in poverty and detachment I will renounce my will, my inclinations

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 you to grow up in greater love for each other.

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

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.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

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.

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

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.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

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.

Peace begins with a smile.

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.

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

Be a living expression of God's kindness.

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

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