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100 Significant Mother Teresa Quotes

Mother Teresa Quotes: By dedicating her life to the poor, the sick, and the dying, Mother Teresa has become known throughout the world as an extraordinary and remarkable person.

See also : 100 Significant Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Here we listed best Mother Teresa quotes for you

1. “Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.” -Mother Teresa

2. “If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.” -Mother Teresa

3. “God speaks in the silence of the heart.” -Mother Teresa

4. “We have to possess before we can give.” -Mother Teresa

5. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” -Mother Teresa

6. “God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.” -Mother Teresa

7. “Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.” -Mother Teresa

8. “He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.” -Mother Teresa

9. “May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.” -Mother Teresa

10. “If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.” -Mother Teresa

11. “If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway.” -Mother Teresa

12. “I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.” -Mother Teresa

13. “I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.” -Mother Teresa

14. “In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.” -Mother Teresa

15. “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” -Mother Teresa

16. “Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God’s work with a smile.” -Mother Teresa

17. “Live simply so others may simply live.” -Mother Teresa

18. “Peace and war start within one’s own home. If we really want peace for the world, let us start by loving one another within our families. Sometimes it is hard for us to smile at one another.” -Mother Teresa

19. “One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” -Mother Teresa

20. “Life is a game, play it… Life is too precious, do not destroy it.” -Mother Teresa

21. “We fear the future because we are wasting today.” -Mother Teresa

22. “When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.” -Mother Teresa

23. “Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.” -Mother Teresa

24. “Whenever you share love with others, you’ll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.” -Mother Teresa

25. “Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you to forget that you have been created for greater things.” -Mother Teresa

26. “The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.” -Mother Teresa

27. “Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity, we must be able to look up and say, I can do all things in Him who strengthens me. By yourself you can do nothing, have nothing but sin, weakness and misery. All the gifts of nature and grace you have them from God.” -Mother Teresa

28. “Although she be but little, she is fierce.” -Mother Teresa

29. “Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” -Mother Teresa

30. “True love is giving and giving until it hurts.” -Mother Teresa quotes

31. “We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.” -Mother Teresa

32. “Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.” -Mother Teresa

33. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” -Mother Teresa

34. “The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.” -Mother Teresa

35. “The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.” -Mother Teresa

36. “I don’t do great things. I do small things with great love.” -Mother Teresa

37. “Words that do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.” -Mother Teresa

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38. “The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.” -Mother Teresa

39. “If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.” -Mother Teresa

40. “Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.” -Mother Teresa

41. “Not handouts, but rather hands held.” -Mother Teresa

42. “The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.” -Mother Teresa

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

44. “If now we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten how to see God in one another.” -Mother Teresa

45. “There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.” -Mother Teresa

46. “We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” -Mother Teresa quotes on smile

47. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” -Mother Teresa

48. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” -Mother Teresa

49. “Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.” -Mother Teresa

50. “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

51. “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.” -Mother Teresa

52. “You are greater than you know.” -Mother Teresa

53. “We cannot give what we have not got.” -Mother Teresa

54. “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” -Mother Teresa

55. “Loneliness is the most terrible form of poverty.” -Mother Teresa

56. “Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.” -Mother Teresa

57. “We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.” -Mother Teresa

58. “Do extraordinary things with love.” -Mother Teresa

59. “I do not pray for success; I ask for faithfulness.” -Mother Teresa

60. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” -Mother Teresa quotes

61. “I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.” -Mother Teresa

62. “We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.” -Mother Teresa

63. “The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.” -Mother Teresa

64. “Together we can do great things.” -Mother Teresa

65. “Life is a challenge; we must take it.” -Mother Teresa

66. “Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.” -Mother Teresa

67. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” -Mother Teresa

68. “Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.” -Mother Teresa

69. “If we are humble, nothing will change us, neither praise, nor discouragement.” -Mother Teresa

70. “There is thing you can do but I cannot and there is thing I can but you cannot; so, let us make something beautiful for God.” -Mother Teresa

71. “Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.” -Mother Teresa

72. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” -Mother Teresa

73. “What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.” -Mother Teresa

74. “I go of my free choice, with the blessing of obedience.” -Mother Teresa

75. “Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.” -Mother Teresa

76. “True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love.” -Mother Teresa

77. “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” -Mother Teresa

78. “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.” -Mother Teresa

79. “I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?” -Mother Teresa

80. “There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.” -Mother Teresa

81. “If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.” -Mother Teresa

82. “Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.” -Mother Teresa

83. “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

84. “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” -Mother Teresa

85. “‎Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” -Mother Teresa

86. “There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” -Mother Teresa

87. “If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” -Mother Teresa

88. “A life not lived for others is not a life.” -Mother Teresa

89. “I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.” -Mother Teresa

90. “Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.” -Mother Teresa

91. “If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers.” -Mother Teresa

92. “Life’s a song, sing it.” -Mother Teresa

93. “One filled with the joy preaches without preaching.” -Mother Teresa

94. “Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you’ve got anyway.” -Mother Teresa

95. “We interfere with God’s plans when we push in someone or something else not suitable for us. Be strict with yourself, and then be very strict with what you are receiving from the outside.” -Mother Teresa

96. “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.” -Mother Teresa

97. “Work without love is slavery.” -Mother Teresa

98. “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” -Mother Teresa

99. “Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.” -Mother Teresa

100. “Peace begins with a smile.” -Mother Teresa

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