Top 500 Mother Teresa Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It’s not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.”

— Mother Teresa

252. “We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.”

— Mother Teresa

253. “You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.”

— Mother Teresa

254. “The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you.”

— Mother Teresa

255. “It takes a checkbook to change the world.”

— Mother Teresa

256. “The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.”

— Mother Teresa

257. “To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.”

— Mother Teresa

258. “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

259. “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

260. “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

261. “Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.”

— Mother Teresa

262. “Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.”

— Mother Teresa

263. “A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.”

— Mother Teresa

264. “The first step to becoming is to will it.”

— Mother Teresa

265. “You know my God. My God is called love.”

— Mother Teresa

266. “The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved...”

— Mother Teresa

267. “We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.”

— Mother Teresa

268. “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

269. “The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.”

— Mother Teresa

270. “In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.”

— Mother Teresa

271. “We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.”

— Mother Teresa

272. “My key to heaven is that I loved Jesus in the night.”

— Mother Teresa

273. “In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.”

— Mother Teresa

274. “God doesn’t ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.”

— Mother Teresa

275. “There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.”

— Mother Teresa

276. “If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

278. “If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.”

— Mother Teresa

279. “You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.”

— Mother Teresa

280. “Suffering will come, trouble will come – that’s part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.”

— Mother Teresa

281. “What we need is love without getting tired.”

— Mother Teresa

282. “Abortion is profoundly anti-women.”

— Mother Teresa

283. “God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.”

— Mother Teresa

284. “My television is the tabernacle.”

— Mother Teresa

285. “Never Let Anyone Come to You Without Coming Away Better and Happier.”

— Mother Teresa

286. “A Christian is the dwelling place of the living God. He created me, he chose me, He came to dwell in me, because he wanted me. Now that you have known how much God is in love with you it is but natural that you spend the rest of your life radiating that love.”

— Mother Teresa

287. “To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.”

— Mother Teresa

288. “I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the streets and I find the same Jesus hidden in the dying destitute, the AIDS patients, the lepers, the abandoned children, the hungry, and the homeless. It’s the same Jesus.”

— Mother Teresa

289. “The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.”

— Mother Teresa

290. “Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.”

— Mother Teresa

291. “Let’s not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let’s pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!”

— Mother Teresa

292. “Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”

— Mother Teresa

293. “Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.”

— Mother Teresa

294. “Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.”

— Mother Teresa

295. “Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandonded, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty.”

— Mother Teresa

296. “It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.”

— Mother Teresa

297. “There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”

— Mother Teresa

298. “Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.”

— Mother Teresa

299. “Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.”

— Mother Teresa

300. “Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.”

— Mother Teresa