Top 500 Mother Teresa Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “We have only today. Let us begin.”

— Mother Teresa

52. “Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God.”

— Mother Teresa

53. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”

— Mother Teresa

54. “What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

55. “We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.”

— Mother Teresa

56. “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

58. “Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.”

— Mother Teresa

59. “I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”

— Mother Teresa

60. “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

61. “It is easy to love the 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

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

— Mother Teresa

63. “Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.”

— Mother Teresa

64. “Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.”

— Mother Teresa

65. “The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”

— Mother Teresa

66. “Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.”

— Mother Teresa

67. “God gives us things to share, God doesn’t give us things to hold...”

— Mother Teresa

68. “When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.”

— Mother Teresa

69. “Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”

— Mother Teresa

70. “There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”

— Mother Teresa

71. “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

72. “Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.”

— Mother Teresa

73. “Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus – a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”

— Mother Teresa

74. “To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”

— Mother Teresa

75. “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

76. “Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.”

— Mother Teresa

77. “The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.”

— Mother Teresa

78. “Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”

— Mother Teresa

79. “Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other – it doesn’t matter who it is – and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.”

— Mother Teresa

80. “The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace.”

— Mother Teresa

81. “The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

82. “Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

84. “It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”

— Mother Teresa

85. “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.”

— Mother Teresa

86. “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

87. “I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.”

— Mother Teresa

88. “Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.”

— Mother Teresa

89. “How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”

— Mother Teresa

90. “Faith keeps the person who keeps the faith.”

— Mother Teresa

91. “I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” 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

92. “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”

— Mother Teresa

93. “Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.”

— Mother Teresa

94. “Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

96. “God didn’t call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.”

— Mother Teresa

97. “Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

98. “Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

100. “In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.”

— Mother Teresa