Top 100 Quotes About Mother Teresa
#1. If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.
Mother Teresa
#2. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.
Mother Teresa
#3. Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.
Simon Sinek
#4. 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
#5. Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.
Mother Teresa
#6. Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we can't imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer?
Gary Haugen
#7. If u cannot love a person whom you see,then how can you love God whom you have never seen..
Mother Teresa
#8. If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.
Roddy Doyle
#9. We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.
Mother Teresa
#10. When I feel like I'm stuck, I do something - not like I'm Mother Teresa or anything, but there's someone that's forgotten about in your life, all the time. Someone that could use an 'Attaboy' or a 'How you doin' out there.
Bill Murray
#11. Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.
Mother Teresa
#14. I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.
Mother Teresa
#15. Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see Jesus around us.
Mother Teresa
#16. 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
#17. 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
#19. Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa
#21. People don't always give us full credit for our warm, fuzzy side, but it's definitely there. We just love to help."
"Fuckin' Mother Teresa of the MC world, Horse. Brings a tear to me eye.
Joanna Wylde
#22. They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
Wendie Malick
#23. I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.
Mother Teresa
#24. A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself
Mother Teresa
#25. Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness.
Mother Teresa
#26. Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.
Mother Teresa
#27. Mother Teresa is credited with saying, "God didn't call us to be successful, just faithful.
Max Lucado
#28. I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa
#29. Each time people come into contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love.
Mother Teresa
#30. There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful for God.
Mother Teresa
#31. We are called to be contemplatives..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time ...
Mother Teresa
#32. One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.
Mother Teresa
#33. Never Let Anyone Come to You Without Coming Away Better and Happier
Mother Teresa
#34. Abortion is murder in the womb ... A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.
Mother Teresa
#35. What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.
Mother Teresa
#36. I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.
Mother Teresa
#37. A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.
Mother Teresa
#38. He has told us that He is the hungry one. He is the naked one. He is the thirsty one. He is the one without a home. He is the one who is suffering. These are our treasures, she said, looking at the rows of pallets in the caravanserai. They are Jesus.
Mother Teresa
#39. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
#40. I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.
Mother Teresa
#41. Adolf Hitler is simply the dark-side of Mother Teresa.
Gregory A. Boyd
#42. I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
Mother Teresa
#43. 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-
A Meredith Walters
#44. 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
#45. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.
Mother Teresa
#46. The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.
Mother Teresa
#47. America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.
Mother Teresa
#48. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you really don't want to smile at. Do it for Peace.
Mother Teresa
#49. I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
Mike Tyson
#50. 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
#51. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
#52. 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
#53. In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.
Mother Teresa
#54. Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread, and by our understanding love,give them peace and joy.
Mother Teresa
#55. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa
#56. I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.
Shahrukh Khan
#58. Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa
#59. Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.
Mother Teresa
#60. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
#61. 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
#62. For however much the Gateses might give away, their daily life remains, by and large, unaffected. They remain, in spite of this enormous donation, one of the wealthiest couples in the world. Mother Teresa, on the other hand, gave up everything to serve the poorest of the poor. Pinker
Gary A. Anderson
#63. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service and the fruit of service is peace.
Mother Teresa
#64. I remember I picked up a person from the street who was nearly eaten up with maggots, and he said, I have lived like an animal, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.
Mother Teresa
#67. Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.
Mother Teresa
#68. Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.
Mother Teresa
#70. Thoughts have power, influencing humanity's collective path. The difference between Mother Teresa and Adolf Hitler lies, ultimately, in how they thought. A thought can change the world for the better - or damn it forever.
Diane Shauer
#71. No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
Mother Teresa
#72. She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.
Mother Teresa
#73. People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.
Mother Teresa
#74. In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.
Mother Teresa
#75. Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.
Alex Steffen
#76. Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love
Mother Teresa
#77. The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.
Mother Teresa
#78. Behold , I have graven you upon the palm of my hand, that is what Jesus came on earth to do: to proclaim, to give us the Good News that God loves us, that we are precious to Him.
Mother Teresa
#79. Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
Mother Teresa
#80. Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.
Mother Teresa
#81. Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
#82. When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.
Mother Teresa
#83. We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.
Mother Teresa
#84. There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.
Mother Teresa
#85. We are not called to be successful, but faithful.
Mother Teresa
#86. The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved.
Mother Teresa
#87. Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, "I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me." She knew. She understood the secret. Look what she manifested in the world.
Jack Canfield
#88. I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.
Bea Arthur
#89. Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
Mother Teresa
#91. 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
#92. Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa
#93. My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.
Mother Teresa
#94. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.
Mother Teresa
#95. God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold ...
Mother Teresa
#97. We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.
Mother Teresa
#98. We are inconsistent, said Mother Teresa, to care about violence, and to care about hungry children in places like India and Africa, and yet not care about the millions who are killed by the deliberate choice of their own mothers.
Philip Yancey
#99. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
#100. Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.
Mother Teresa
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