Here is powerful Mother Teresa Quotes to share.
As Mother Teresa becomes a saint on Sunday, here are some of her most powerful quotes about her faith and humanitarian work. Pope Francis will make Mother Teresa a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday. Last year, he approved her second miracle, which is needed to become a saint.
People learned about the humanitarian who won the Nobel Peace Prize because she helped poor people in Kolkata, India.
Here are 55 powerful quotes about her faith and philosophy:
Mother Teresa Quotes
❝Do not think that love, to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.” ~ 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
❝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.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” ~ 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
❝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
❝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
❝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
❝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
❝I think I’m more difficult than critical.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝The success of love is in 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 determine the value of what we have done.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝So many signatures for such a small heart.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Peace begins with a smile.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝It is easy to love people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝We are all pencils in the hand of God.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝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.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” ~ 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
❝Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don’t 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
❝I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.” ~ 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
❝Good works are links that form a chain of love.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone’s house. That says enough.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your heart to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝In this life, we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Jesus said to love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.” ~ 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
❝Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put into that action.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝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.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝Let us more and more insist on raising funds for love, kindness, understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝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.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝We 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
❝I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?” ~ Mother Teresa
❝The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked, and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for is the greatest. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” ~ Mother Teresa
❝We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.” ~ Mother Teresa
