Top 500 Mother Teresa Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever he wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it.”

— Mother Teresa

202. “Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.”

— Mother Teresa

203. “Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.”

— Mother Teresa

204. “Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.”

— Mother Teresa

205. “Spread love whenever you go...”

— Mother Teresa

206. “It is not enough for us to say: “I love God,” but I also have to love my neighbor. St. John says that you are a liar if you say you love God and you don’t love your neighbor. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live?”

— Mother Teresa

207. “The ocean is made of drops.”

— Mother Teresa

208. “You can pray while you work. Work doesn’t stop prayer and prayer doesn’t stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.”

— Mother Teresa

209. “Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy!”

— Mother Teresa

210. “Keep your heart pure. A pure heart is necessary to see God in each other. If you see God in each other, there is love for each other, then there is peace.”

— Mother Teresa

211. “It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”

— Mother Teresa

212. “Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God’s gift of Himself.”

— Mother Teresa

213. “In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.”

— Mother Teresa

214. “Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.”

— Mother Teresa

215. “Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you really don’t want to smile at. Do it for Peace.”

— Mother Teresa

216. “No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.”

— Mother Teresa

217. “When Christ said: “I was hungry and you fed me,” he didn’t mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.”

— Mother Teresa

218. “What you are doing I cannot do, what I’m doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God’s love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.”

— Mother Teresa

219. “If you can’t do great things, do little things with great love. If you can’t do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can’t do them with a little love, do them anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

220. “Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.”

— Mother Teresa

221. “Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.”

— Mother Teresa

222. “Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.”

— Mother Teresa

223. “People crave attention and appreciation more than they do bread.”

— Mother Teresa

224. “I belong to Jesus. He must have the right to use me without consulting me.”

— Mother Teresa

225. “We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.”

— Mother Teresa

226. “Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.”

— Mother Teresa

227. “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.”

— Mother Teresa

228. “Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch...”

— Mother Teresa

229. “The fruit of faith is love.”

— Mother Teresa

230. “True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love.”

— Mother Teresa

231. “The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.”

— Mother Teresa

232. “It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.”

— Mother Teresa

233. “The most important medicine is tender love and care.”

— Mother Teresa

234. “Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.”

— Mother Teresa

235. “Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration.”

— Mother Teresa

236. “Love – the more you share with others, the more you have.”

— Mother Teresa

237. “There is no greater sickness in the world today than the lack of love.”

— Mother Teresa

238. “We belong to each other.”

— Mother Teresa

239. “Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.”

— Mother Teresa

240. “Joy is strength.”

— Mother Teresa

241. “All works of love are works of peace.”

— Mother Teresa

242. “Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves – on God’s grace and on our will to be holy.”

— Mother Teresa

243. “Success will win you false friends and true enemies – succeed anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

244. “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?”

— Mother Teresa

245. “As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.”

— Mother Teresa

246. “The fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace, and peace begins with a smile.”

— Mother Teresa

247. “We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.”

— Mother Teresa

248. “It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.”

— Mother Teresa

249. “It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.”

— Mother Teresa

250. “Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.”

— Mother Teresa