Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
MOTHER TERESA I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
MOTHER TERESA The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
MOTHER TERESA Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t...
MOTHER TERESA Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money...
MOTHER TERESA I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touc...
MOTHER TERESA Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
MOTHER TERESA Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
MOTHER TERESA Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call...
MOTHER TERESA We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence...
MOTHER TERESA Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. H...
MOTHER TERESA These are the few ways we can practice humility:

To speak as little as possible of one's ...
MOTHER TERESA Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
MOTHER TERESA Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at...
MOTHER TERESA Peace begins with a smile..
MOTHER TERESA If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
MOTHER TERESA Give, but give until it hurts.
MOTHER TERESA Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the sam...
MOTHER TERESA It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
MOTHER TERESA Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
MOTHER TERESA If I look at the mass I will never act.
MOTHER TERESA At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we ha...
MOTHER TERESA The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and unca...
MOTHER TERESA The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
MOTHER TERESA Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
MOTHER TERESA If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.
MOTHER TERESA Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
MOTHER TERESA I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
MOTHER TERESA I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
MOTHER TERESA God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
MOTHER TERESA What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
MOTHER TERESA Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love witho...
MOTHER TERESA Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
MOTHER TERESA Work without love is slavery.
MOTHER TERESA Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
MOTHER TERESA I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
MOTHER TERESA I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for Go...
MOTHER TERESA The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service<...
MOTHER TERESA I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to...
MOTHER TERESA We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
MOTHER TERESA Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that acti...
MOTHER TERESA To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we pu...
MOTHER TERESA Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they ...
MOTHER TERESA There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying to...
MOTHER TERESA I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love...
MOTHER TERESA One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
MOTHER TERESA I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child......
MOTHER TERESA Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
MOTHER TERESA Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's ki...
MOTHER TERESA I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
MOTHER TERESA The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left ...
MOTHER TERESA There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only...
MOTHER TERESA Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need...
MOTHER TERESA If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
MOTHER TERESA Peace begins with a smile.
MOTHER TERESA The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left...
MOTHER TERESA If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have t...
MOTHER TERESA Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
MOTHER TERESA We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwan...
MOTHER TERESA The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
MOTHER TERESA Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
MOTHER TERESA Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger,...
MOTHER TERESA If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
MOTHER TERESA Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
MOTHER TERESA Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
MOTHER TERESA Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
MOTHER TERESA We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
MOTHER TERESA Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
MOTHER TERESA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less be...
MOTHER TERESA Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
MOTHER TERESA We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully. Do not let a chance pass you by. It is ...
MOTHER TERESA I hope that what you give me comes not from your surplus but it is the fruit of a sacrifice made for...
MOTHER TERESA Christ says: I know you through and through – I know everything about you. The very hairs of your ...
MOTHER TERESA Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doin...
MOTHER TERESA Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have ...
MOTHER TERESA every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing
MOTHER TERESA Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we was...
MOTHER TERESA God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work ...
MOTHER TERESA God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold...
MOTHER TERESA The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do someth...
MOTHER TERESA Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what...
MOTHER TERESA I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything a...
MOTHER TERESA We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
MOTHER TERESA Never be so busy as not to think of others.
MOTHER TERESA It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
MOTHER TERESA Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv...
MOTHER TERESA There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the ...
MOTHER TERESA We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -Mother Teresa.
MOTHER TERESA We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence....
MOTHER TERESA I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask ...
MOTHER TERESA Joy is strength.
MOTHER TERESA Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, wha...
MOTHER TERESA It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
MOTHER TERESA The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
MOTHER TERESA Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war th...
MOTHER TERESA Whether one is Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, how you live your life is proof that you are or not...
MOTHER TERESA What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.
MOTHER TERESA We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little l...
MOTHER TERESA The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
MOTHER TERESA The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
MOTHER TERESA Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
MOTHER TERESA Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
MOTHER TERESA Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
MOTHER TERESA It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.
MOTHER TERESA It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easie...
MOTHER TERESA If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
MOTHER TERESA If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
MOTHER TERESA I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
MOTHER TERESA I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
MOTHER TERESA God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
MOTHER TERESA The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
MOTHER TERESA I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
MOTHER TERESA Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a hear...
MOTHER TERESA Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. L...
MOTHER TERESA The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, u...
MOTHER TERESA unwanted and unloved.
MOTHER TERESA The greatest threat to world peace is abortion!!!
MOTHER TERESA Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
MOTHER TERESA Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
MOTHER TERESA La vie est un défi à relever, un bonheur à mériter, une aventure à tenter.
MOTHER TERESA We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a ...
MOTHER TERESA So many signatures for such a small heart.
MOTHER TERESA Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.
MOTHER TERESA There are many in the world Who are dying for a piece of bread, But there are many more dying for a ...
MOTHER TERESA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in th...
MOTHER TERESA There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
MOTHER TERESA It's a great feeling to have witnessed 50 years of Indian independence,
MOTHER TERESA In a matter of days, you'll see serious sickness, malnutrition and even starvation,
MOTHER TERESA For devil's sake, don't give bribes,
MOTHER TERESA [Former President Jimmy Carter released a statement which said that he and his wife, Rosalyn, were] ...
MOTHER TERESA The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. -Mother Teresa.
MOTHER TERESA It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters. -Mother Teresa.
MOTHER TERESA A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. -Mother Teresa.
MOTHER TERESA Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable ...
MOTHER TERESA I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God
MOTHER TERESA We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the dr...
MOTHER TERESA If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.
MOTHER TERESA I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardnes...
MOTHER TERESA Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss o...
MOTHER TERESA In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you...
MOTHER TERESA May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
MOTHER TERESA Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes ...
MOTHER TERESA Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hu...
MOTHER TERESA If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. -Mother Teresa.
MOTHER TERESA If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
MOTHER TERESA There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. -Mother Teresa.
MOTHER TERESA We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the oc...
MOTHER TERESA I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time ...
MOTHER TERESA a rare and unique individual who lived long for higher purposes. Her life-long devotion to the care ...
MOTHER TERESA It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
MOTHER TERESA The first step to becoming is to will it."
MOTHER TERESA If a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me - there is n...
MOTHER TERESA The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It ...
MOTHER TERESA A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
MOTHER TERESA I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do tha...
MOTHER TERESA Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
MOTHER TERESA A life not lived for others is not a life.
MOTHER TERESA If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are...
MOTHER TERESA I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is si...
MOTHER TERESA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop were not ther...
MOTHER TERESA Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love wit...
MOTHER TERESA Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
MOTHER TERESA When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th...
MOTHER TERESA There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
MOTHER TERESA I never will understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.
MOTHER TERESA In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the ...
MOTHER TERESA Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
MOTHER TERESA Life is beauty admire it!
MOTHER TERESA Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.
MOTHER TERESA If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in...
MOTHER TERESA Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it i...
MOTHER TERESA Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics:
—missionary: by going o...
MOTHER TERESA Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This...
MOTHER TERESA Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
MOTHER TERESA God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His co...
MOTHER TERESA Live simply so others may simply live.
MOTHER TERESA Give that child to me. I want it. I will care for it. I am willing to accept any child who would be ...
MOTHER TERESA It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small thin...
MOTHER TERESA Fr. Bert White: I think when you focus on money and property ownership, you go the way of the materi...
MOTHER TERESA As soon as we take the enfleshment of God, the incarnation which, for Christians, is represented by ...
MOTHER TERESA Deliver me, O Jesus, From the desire of being loved, From the desire of being extolled, From the des...
MOTHER TERESA The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit ...
MOTHER TERESA Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so tha...
MOTHER TERESA I am like a pencil in God's hand. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has only to ...
MOTHER TERESA It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how...
MOTHER TERESA People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.

I...
MOTHER TERESA Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love wit...
MOTHER TERESA The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
MOTHER TERESA Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoev...
MOTHER TERESA Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
MOTHER TERESA If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill eac...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often th...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA