Top 500 Mother Teresa Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Purity is the fruit of prayer.”

— Mother Teresa

252. “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

253. “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

254. “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

255. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

257. “I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.”

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

261. “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

262. “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

263. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

265. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

270. “We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.”

— Mother Teresa

271. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

274. “Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

276. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

280. “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

281. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

284. “If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

286. “Prayer feeds the soul – as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul – and it brings you closer to God.”

— Mother Teresa

287. “We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

289. “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

290. “God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.”

— Mother Teresa

291. “The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”

— Mother Teresa

292. “Abortion is profoundly anti-women.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

294. “My television is the tabernacle.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

296. “Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

298. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa