Mother Teresa Quotes:
Inspiration for Loving and Giving

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.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

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.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

Mother Teresa

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

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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.

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Mother Teresa Quotes: A Tribute

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

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.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

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

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

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

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

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.

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

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

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

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

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

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.

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

Mother Teresa

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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Peace begins with a smile.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Good works are links that form a chain of 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.

We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

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

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.