Top 500 Mother Teresa Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: ‘What will convert America and save the world?’ My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer.”

— Mother Teresa

202. “Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.”

— Mother Teresa

203. “Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.”

— Mother Teresa

204. “Like Jesus, we belong to the world, living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.”

— Mother Teresa

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

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

— Mother Teresa

208. “The ocean is made of drops.”

— Mother Teresa

209. “Spread love whenever you go...”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

211. “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

212. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

216. “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

217. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

219. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

221. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

223. “What you are doing I cannot do, what I’m doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God. 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

224. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

231. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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233. “The fruit of faith is love.”

— Mother Teresa

234. “Joy is strength.”

— Mother Teresa

235. “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

236. “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

237. “The family that prays together stays together, and if they stay together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And works of love are always works of peace.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

241. “We belong to each other.”

— Mother Teresa

242. “I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

246. “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

247. “I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.”

— Mother Teresa

248. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

250. “To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.”

— Mother Teresa