Top 500 Mother Teresa Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.”

— Mother Teresa

452. “Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.”

— Mother Teresa

453. “I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless – to be God’s Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.”

— Mother Teresa

454. “What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”

— Mother Teresa

455. “Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.”

— Mother Teresa

456. “It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct.”

— Mother Teresa

457. “God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.”

— Mother Teresa

458. “Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty – the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess.”

— Mother Teresa

459. “Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.”

— Mother Teresa

460. “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

461. “Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!”

— Mother Teresa

462. “I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, ‘Why do you do this?’ I said, ‘Because I love you.’”

— Mother Teresa

463. “Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.”

— Mother Teresa

464. “Let us love one another as God loves each one of us. And where does this love begin? In our own home. How does it begin? By praying together.”

— Mother Teresa

465. “God Is Using Gianna Jessen To Remind The World, That Each Human Being Is Precious To Him.”

— Mother Teresa

466. “The poor give us much more than we give them. They’re such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don’t have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.”

— Mother Teresa

467. “God does not demand that I be succesful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.”

— Mother Teresa

468. “Any work of love brings a person face to face with God.”

— Mother Teresa

469. “You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us.”

— Mother Teresa

470. “I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.”

— Mother Teresa

471. “There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.”

— Mother Teresa

472. “They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that’s the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.”

— Mother Teresa

473. “You weren’t created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.”

— Mother Teresa

474. “Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in, Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier and it will come naturally.”

— Mother Teresa

475. “Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.”

— Mother Teresa

476. “In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”

— Mother Teresa

477. “Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.”

— Mother Teresa

478. “Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”

— Mother Teresa

479. “Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.”

— Mother Teresa

480. “Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.”

— Mother Teresa

481. “The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.”

— Mother Teresa

482. “He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.”

— Mother Teresa

483. “It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.”

— Mother Teresa

484. “I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.”

— Mother Teresa

485. “The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don’t have. That’s why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.”

— Mother Teresa

486. “Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.”

— Mother Teresa

487. “My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus’ call to you with the simple word ‘yes’.”

— Mother Teresa

488. “I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master’s footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.”

— Mother Teresa

489. “Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don’t need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.”

— Mother Teresa

490. “Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.”

— Mother Teresa

491. “Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper.”

— Mother Teresa

492. “When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them.”

— Mother Teresa

493. “Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.”

— Mother Teresa

494. “Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I’m more difficult than critical.”

— Mother Teresa

495. “Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.”

— Mother Teresa

496. “Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.”

— Mother Teresa

497. “So many signatures for such a small heart.”

— Mother Teresa

498. “Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.”

— Mother Teresa

499. “Our Father, here I am, at your disposal, your child, to use me to continue your loving the world, by giving Jesus to me and through me, to each other that we allow Jesus to love in us and through us with the love with which His Father loves him.”

— Mother Teresa

500. “You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.”

— Mother Teresa