47 Quotes By Mother Teresa


Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa on love

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

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa on love

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 on love

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

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa on love

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa on love

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 on love

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.
Mother Teresa on money

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.
Mother Teresa on money

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa on money

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.
Mother Teresa on nature

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa on peace

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa on peace

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 on peace

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.
Mother Teresa on peace

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 on respect

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa on smile

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa on smile

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa on smile