Top 500 Mother Teresa Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.”

— Mother Teresa

302. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

304. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

306. “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

307. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

309. “Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.”

— Mother Teresa

310. “If you ask children in the west where’s God, they’d point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.”

— Mother Teresa

311. “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

312. “Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.”

— Mother Teresa

313. “If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.”

— Mother Teresa

314. “Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.”

— Mother Teresa

315. “The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.”

— Mother Teresa

316. “If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.”

— Mother Teresa

317. “God made the world for the delight of human beings.”

— Mother Teresa

318. “The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.”

— Mother Teresa

319. “Everything that is not given is lost.”

— Mother Teresa

320. “I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”

— Mother Teresa

321. “Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.”

— Mother Teresa

322. “A direct killing of the innocent child, ‘Murder’ by the mother herself.”

— Mother Teresa

323. “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

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

— Mother Teresa

325. “You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Mother Teresa

327. “God loves me. I’m not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.”

— Mother Teresa

328. “More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”

— Mother Teresa

329. “We need to realize that poverty doesn’t only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else.”

— Mother Teresa

330. “In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.”

— Mother Teresa

331. “I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.”

— Mother Teresa

332. “There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.”

— Mother Teresa

333. “The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it’s the logic of love.”

— Mother Teresa

334. “Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”

— Mother Teresa

335. “We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don’t know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?”

— Mother Teresa

336. “If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.”

— Mother Teresa

337. “Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.”

— Mother Teresa

338. “Maybe if I didn’t pick up that one person, I wouldn’t have picked up forty-two thousand...”

— Mother Teresa

339. “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.”

— Mother Teresa

340. “I don’t claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.”

— Mother Teresa

341. “The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, ‘Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.’”

— Mother Teresa

342. “If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.”

— Mother Teresa

343. “The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, our touch, in what we write and say, in the way we walk and the way we receive and in the way we serve.”

— Mother Teresa

344. “Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.”

— Mother Teresa

345. “You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.”

— Mother Teresa

346. “If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.”

— Mother Teresa

347. “The simplest way of becoming his light is by being kind and loving, thoughtful, and sincere with others: ‘By this they will know that you are his disciples.’”

— Mother Teresa

348. “Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.”

— Mother Teresa

349. “We need prayer to understand God’s love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God.”

— Mother Teresa

350. “Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace.”

— Mother Teresa