Mother Teresa quotations are always motivational. Mother Teresa discovered her inspiration in Catholic teachings however received universal affection and admiration in her adopted residence of Calcutta, India by respecting native customs and beliefs and all the time putting our frequent humanity above religious divisions.
By 2013, the charitable organization she had to arrange, the Missionaries of Charity, had spread to 700 missions in 130 nations, offering soup kitchens, facilities for family help, orphanages, faculties, hospitals, and houses for people with ailments corresponding to leprosy, AIDS and tuberculosis, examples of Mother Teresa quotations.
In 2016, Mother Teresa was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa.
Mother Teresa quotations
“Jesus said to love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.” ― Mother Teresa
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
“We are not called to be successful, but faithful.” ― Mother Teresa
We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.
The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.
We fear the future because we are wasting today.
“Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.”
“I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.”
Do not worry about why problems exist in the world – just respond to people’s needs.
“Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you to forget that you have been created for greater things.” ― Mother Teresa
The profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
Work without love is slavery.
“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”― Mother Teresa
“Peace begins with a smile.”
Mother Teresa quotations
“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.”
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
“I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?” – Mother Teresa
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.
I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
“Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.” ― Mother Teresa
“I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for the money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.” – Mother Teresa
“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”
“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.” ― Mother Teresa
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
“Your true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do ‘Nothing’ for you.”
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
“Be happy at the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” ― Mother Teresa
“Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”
Mother Teresa quotations
“Life is love, enjoy it. Life is a mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.”
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
“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.” – Mother Teresa
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” – Mother Teresa
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.
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?”
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
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.
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”― Mother Teresa
“I go of my free choice, with the blessing of obedience.” ― Mother Theresa
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.” ― Mother Teresa
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” – Mother Teresa
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.” – Mother Teresa
“Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them…For as long as you are green, you can grow.” ― Mother Teresa
“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.” ― Mother Teresa
“Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.”
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” – Mother Teresa
“God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa
“Live simply so others may simply live.” – Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa quotations
“No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it’s beautiful to bring a smile into someone’s life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?”
“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.” – Mother Teresa
“There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” – Mother Teresa
“The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God, and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.”
“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.” ― Mother Teresa
“I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don’t understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it? I don’t understand.” – Mother Teresa.
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