Famous Quotes by Mother Teresa (45 Quotations)

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

Mother Teresa – [Poverty and The Poor]

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa – [Love]

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

Mother Teresa – [Vocation]

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Mother Teresa – [Prayer]

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Mother Teresa – [Preachers and Preaching]

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Teresa – [Suffering]

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 – [Poverty and The Poor]

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other — it doesn't matter who it is — and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

Mother Teresa – [Smile]

So many signatures for such a small heart.

Mother Teresa – [Bureaucracy]

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

Mother Teresa – [Vocation]

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Mother Teresa – [Disease]

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Mother Teresa – [Abortion]

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.

Mother Teresa – [Riches]

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 – [Work]

There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor — Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.

Mother Teresa – [Jesus Christ]

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Mother Teresa – [Hunger]

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Mother Teresa – [Wealth]

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 – [Action]

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Teresa – [Aid and Assistance]

We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.

Mother Teresa – [Things and Little Things]