100 Best Mother Teresa Quotes

Words of Compassion, Faith, and Humility

Mother Teresa devoted her life to serving the poorest and most vulnerable, becoming a global symbol of love, compassion, and unwavering faith. Her words, like her actions, continue to inspire people of all backgrounds to lead lives of kindness, service, and humility.

This collection of Mother Teresa quotes captures her deep spirituality, gentle strength, and profound wisdom. Whether you’re seeking comfort, inspiration, or a reminder of the power of simple acts of love, these timeless quotes offer guidance and hope for the heart and soul.

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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. - Mother Teresa
A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels - loved and wanted. - Mother Teresa
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. - Mother Teresa
Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. - Mother Teresa
Even if you can't do great things, you can do small things in a great way. - Mother Teresa
God has not called me to be successful. He has called me to be faithful. - Mother Teresa
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. - Mother Teresa
If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve. - 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 received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. - Mother Teresa
Love does not measure; it just gives. - Mother Teresa
Make us worthy, Lord, to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. - Mother Teresa
Never be so busy as not to think of others. - Mother Teresa
Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity to peace. - Mother Teresa
People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. - Mother Teresa
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself. - Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. - Mother Teresa
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
We can do no great things - only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa
When you don't have anything, then you have everything. - Mother Teresa
You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. - Mother Teresa
A life not lived for others is not a life. - Mother Teresa
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. - Mother Teresa
Do not be afraid to love until it hurts. - Mother Teresa
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. - Mother Teresa
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
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? - Mother Teresa
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. - Mother Teresa
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. - Mother Teresa
Love is a one-way street. It always moves away from self in the direction of the other. - Mother Teresa
Maybe I don't speak their language, but I can smile. - Mother Teresa
Never let anyone come to you without coming away better and happier. - Mother Teresa
One filled with joy preaches without preaching. - Mother Teresa
Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. - Mother Teresa
The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love. - Mother Teresa
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. - Mother Teresa
We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. - 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
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. - Mother Teresa
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. - Mother Teresa
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. - Mother Teresa
Do not be afraid to say yes to Jesus. - Mother Teresa
Every work of love brings a person face to face with God. - Mother Teresa
God still loves the world through you and through me today. - Mother Teresa
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. - Mother Teresa
If we pray, we will believe; if we believe, we will love; if we love, we will serve. - Mother Teresa
Let us make our homes real places of love, so that no one will ever know loneliness. - Mother Teresa
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. - Mother Teresa
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. - Mother Teresa
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