Top 500 Mother Teresa Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.”

— Mother Teresa

202. “Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together.”

— Mother Teresa

203. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

207. “Spread love whenever you go...”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

210. “The ocean is made of drops.”

— Mother Teresa

211. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

213. “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

214. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

216. “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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217. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

222. “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

223. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

225. “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

226. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

233. “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

234. “We belong to each other.”

— Mother Teresa

235. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

238. “The fruit of faith is love.”

— Mother Teresa

239. “Joy is strength.”

— Mother Teresa

240. “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

241. “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

242. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

247. “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

248. “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

249. “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

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

— Mother Teresa