All Quotes by Mother Teresa
“There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
“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.”
“Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.”
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”
“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?”
“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.”
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.”
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.”
“If I look at the mass I will never act.”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
“Peace begins with a smile..”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
“In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.”
“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.”
“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
“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.”
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”
“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.”
“I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?”
“People are happier. There are more jobs. There are no strikes.”
“Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear. The tongue moves but does not speak.”
“From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day.”
“We are misunderstood, we are misrepresented, we are misreported. We are not nurses, we are not doctors, we are not teachers, we are not social workers. We are religious, we are religious, we are religious.”
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.”
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
“Be kind to each other in your homes. Be kind to those who surround you. I prefer that you make mistakes in kindness rather than that you work miracles in unkindness. Often just for one word, one look, one quick action, and darkness fills the heart of the one we love.”
“I don't know what to say since I don't know what is happening [in Albania]. I can say only one thing. My Albanian people are always in my heart. I pray very much to our Lord that His peace may come to our hearts, in our families and in all the world. I pray for Albania, that the Lord may help its leaders to see clearly because if they want to live in peace, they should love one another.”
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“I've never seen the poor people being so familiar with their head of state as they were with her. It was a beautiful lesson for me.”
“I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.”
“I do not know anything about Charles Keating's work or his business or the matters you are dealing with. I only know he has been kind and generous to God's poor, and always ready to help whenever there was a need... Whenever someone asks me to speak to a judge, I always tell them to pray, to look into [their] heart, and to do what Jesus would do in that circumstance. And this is what I am asking of you, your Honor.”
“I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.”
“I am so pleased with all the good work you are doing for world peace and for people in so many countries. May we continue to work together and to share together all for the glory of God and for the good of man.”
“Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if the drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.”
“I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.”
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do 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?”
“If I ever become a Saint — I surely be one of "darkness". I will continually be absent from Heaven — to light the light of those in darkness on earth.”
“Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
“Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love....The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.”
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”