Top 500 Mother Teresa Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.”

— Mother Teresa

252. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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257. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

259. “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

260. “Purity is the fruit of prayer.”

— Mother Teresa

261. “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

262. “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

263. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

265. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

268. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

270. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

277. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

279. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

283. “The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.”

— Mother Teresa

284. “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

285. “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

286. “There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I’ve always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

290. “The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

292. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

294. “Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

296. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

298. “My television is the tabernacle.”

— Mother Teresa

299. “Abortion is profoundly anti-women.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa