Mother Teresa Quotes

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
~Mother Teresa

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
~Mother Teresa

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
~Mother Teresa

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

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
~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

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness,
of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the
Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.
~Mother Teresa

I am 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

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
~Mother Teresa

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

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless.
The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest
poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
~Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
~Mother Teresa

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
~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

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is
put into them that matters.
~Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
~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

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to
that person, a beautiful thing.
~Mother Teresa

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to
love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve
hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved
in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our
love for each other must start.
~Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you
without leaving happier.
~Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
~Mother Teresa

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To
keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
~Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
~Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
~Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
~Mother Teresa

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
~Mother Teresa

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
~Mother teresa

Kindness is a language we all understand. Even the blind can see it and the deaf can hear it.
~ Mother Teresa