Quotes by Mother Teresa

About Mother Teresa:

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, MC is today Macedonia, with her family being of Albanian descent originating in Kosovo.
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I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

Mother Teresa

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

Mother Teresa

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

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. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

Mother Teresa

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.

Mother Teresa

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

Mother Teresa

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.

Mother Teresa

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 to grow up in greater love for each other.

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

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor . . . Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindnes...

Mother Teresa

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary peopl...

Mother Teresa

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

Mother Teresa

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.

Mother Teresa

You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. A...

Mother Teresa

Prayer is not asking. 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

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

Mother Teresa

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

Mother Teresa

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

Mother Teresa

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Mother Teresa

Author Bio

  • NameMother Teresa
  • DescriptionRoman Catholic nun
  • AliasesAgnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu; Blessed Teresa of Calcuta
  • BornAugust 27, 1910
  • DiedSeptember 5, 1997
  • CountryAlbania; India
  • ProfessionNun
  • AwardsRamon Magsaysay Award; Templeton Prize; Balzan Prize; Nobel Peace Prize; Pacem In Terris Award; Bharat Ratna; Damien-Dutton Award; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Congressional Gold Medal; Order Of The Smile; Jawaharlal Nehru Award For International Understanding; Honorary Citizen Of The United States; ; Order Of Australia