Quotes

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
-Mother Teresa

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

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
-Mother Teresa

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

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

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

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

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

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa

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

Peace begins with a smile.
-Mother Teresa

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.
-Mother Teresa

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

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

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

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
-Mother Teresa

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

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

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

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

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 ofGod - the rest will be given.
-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

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

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

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

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

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
-Mother Teresa

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

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

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

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

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
-Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-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. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
-Mother Teresa

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

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

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
-Mother Teresa

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

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

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

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
-Mother Teresa

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

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.
-Mother Teresa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-Mother Teresa