Famous Mother Theresa Quotations

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"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."
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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
by Mother Theresa
"One must really have suffered oneself to help others."
by Mother Theresa
"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
by Mother Theresa
"Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway."
by Mother Theresa
"God doesn't require us to succeed he only requires that you try."
by Mother Theresa
"God loves the world through us."
by Mother Theresa
"Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway."
by Mother Theresa
"Holiness is doing God’s will with a smile."
by Mother Theresa
"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did"
by Mother Theresa
"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."
by Mother Theresa
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
by Mother Theresa
"I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters."
by Mother Theresa
"I see God in every human being."
by Mother Theresa
"If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."
by Mother Theresa
"If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway."
by Mother Theresa
"If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway."
by Mother Theresa
"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
by Mother Theresa
"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. So, spread your love everywhere you go."
by Mother Theresa
"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God-the rest will be given."
by Mother Theresa
"Life is a promise fulfill it."
by Mother Theresa
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand."
by Mother Theresa
"People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway."
by Mother Theresa
"Spread love everywhere you go First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
by Mother Theresa
"The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century."
by Sidney Madwed
"The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway."
by Mother Theresa
"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."
by Mother Theresa
"There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those."
by Mother Theresa
"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."
by Mother Theresa
"We are all pencils in the hand of God."
by Mother Theresa
"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls."
by Mother Theresa
"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."
by Mother Theresa
"What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway."
by Mother Theresa
"Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness."
by Mother Theresa
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
by Mother Theresa
"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."
by Mother Theresa
"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."
by Mother Theresa
"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."
by Mother Theresa
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things."
by Mother Theresa
"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
by Mother Theresa
"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God --the rest will be given."
by Mother Theresa
"When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger."
by Mother Theresa
"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."
by Mother Theresa
"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."
by Mother Theresa
"If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge."
by Mother Theresa
"We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. I will be a saint means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God."
by Mother Theresa
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
by Mother Theresa
"If you judge people"
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"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle, I just wish that He didn't trust me so much"
by Mother Theresa
"We are all pencils in the hand of God writing love letters to the world"
by Mother Theresa
"Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God."
by Mother Theresa
"The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century."
by Sidney Madwed
"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."
by Mother Theresa
"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."
by Mother Theresa
"Kind words may be short... but their echoes are endless."
by Mother Theresa


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