Mother Theresa Quotes

A collection of quotes by Mother Theresa.

Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia (then part of the Ottoman Empire), dedicated her life to serving the poor and destitute. At the age of 18, she moved to Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto as a missionary. Afterward, she traveled to India where she taught at a school in Calcutta.

In 1946, Mother Teresa experienced a calling within her vocation to serve the poorest of the poor. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 and, over the years, established numerous charitable centers all around the world to provide assistance, care, and compassion to those in need.

Her work gained international recognition, and Mother Teresa became a symbol of selflessness and humanitarianism. She received numerous awards and honors, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, for her unwavering dedication to helping the most vulnerable.

Through her mission, Mother Teresa touched countless lives, providing comfort to the sick, elderly, and abandoned. She continuously advocated for the importance of love, kindness, and empathy in transforming society. Despite facing criticism and challenges, Mother Teresa remained steadfast in her commitment to serving others.

Mother Teresa passed away on September 5, 1997, leaving behind a legacy of compassion and service that continues to inspire people worldwide. Her extraordinary life exemplified the power of one individual's determination to make a positive difference in the lives of those most in need.

We must have a real living determination to reach holiness.

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.

Saints Saint

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husba

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.

Smile

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and res

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.

Silence

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for

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

Wealth

As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slu

As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.

Evangelism

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious

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.

Peace

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich coul

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.

Love

When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mea

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.

Loneliness

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extr

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Love

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Love

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how

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

Love

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we

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

Peace

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most ter

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

Poverty

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only

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.

Poverty

There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person i

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.

Christianity

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Joy Excitement

I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me

I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.

Christianity

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, bu

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

Advice

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

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

Help

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happi

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.

Kindness