Mother Teresa Quotes

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I 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?

~ Mother Teresa

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

~ Mother Teresa

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

~ Mother Teresa

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases 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. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

~ Mother Teresa

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

~ Mother Teresa

Work without love is slavery.

~ Mother Teresa

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

~ Mother Teresa

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

~ Mother Teresa

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

~ Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile..

~ Mother Teresa

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

~ Mother Teresa

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

~ Mother Teresa

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

~ Mother Teresa

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

~ Mother Teresa

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

~ Mother Teresa

The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love.

~ Mother Teresa

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

~ Mother Teresa

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

~ Mother Teresa

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

~ Mother Teresa

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

~ Mother Teresa

I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn't expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.

~ Mother Teresa

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

~ Mother Teresa

I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.

~ Mother Teresa

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. 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 weakness.

~ Mother Teresa

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

~ Mother Teresa

God hasn't called us to be successful, just faithful.

~ Mother Teresa

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

~ Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

~ Mother Teresa

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

~ Mother Teresa

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

~ Mother Teresa

If I look at the mass I will never act.

~ Mother Teresa

Joy is strength.

~ Mother Teresa

Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

~ Mother Teresa

If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

~ Mother Teresa

Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.

~ Mother Teresa

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

~ Mother Teresa

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers. ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta

~ Mother Teresa

Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, I can do all things in Him who strengthens me. By yourself you can do nothing, have nothing but sin, weakness and misery. All the gifts of nature and grace you have them from God.

~ Mother Teresa

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

~ Mother Teresa

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

~ Mother Teresa