Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu was an Indian-Albanian nun, belonging to the Roman Catholic Church, and is widely known around the world for her significant and widespread humanitarian efforts. She devoted most of her life caring for the sick and the vulnerable. Mother Teresa’s selflessness and sacrifice made her an international symbol of charitable work. She was also the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her efforts and the compassion she showed the poor of all classes and religions.
Here Are Some of the Most Inspiring Mother Teresa Quotes to Empower You
1.“We fear the future because we are wasting today.” ― Mother Teresa
2.“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” ― Mother Teresa
3.“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.” ― Mother Teresa
4.“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.” ― Mother Teresa
5.“I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?” ― Mother Teresa
6.“There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” ― Mother Teresa
7.“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” ― Mother Teresa
8.“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.” ― Mother Teresa
9.“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
10.“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.” ― Mother Teresa
11.“Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.” ― Mother Teresa
12.“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
13.“Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.” ― Mother Teresa
14.“Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.” ― Mother Teresa
15.“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
16.“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
17.“Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you’ve got anyway.” ― Mother Teresa
18.“I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.” ― Mother Teresa
19.“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.” ― Mother Teresa
20.“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
21.“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.” ― Mother Teresa
22.“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
23.“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
24.“I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.” ― Mother Teresa
25.“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” ― Mother Teresa
26.“Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.” ― Mother Teresa
27.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
28.“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” ― Mother Teresa
29.“If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.” ― Mother Teresa
30.“If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway.” ― Mother Teresa
31.“I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.” ― Mother Teresa
32.“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
33.“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
34.“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
35.“The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.” ― Mother Teresa
36.“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.” ― Mother Teresa
37.“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.” ― Mother Teresa
38.“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.” ― Mother Teresa
39.“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.” ― Mother Teresa
40.“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
41.“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
42.“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
43.“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
44.“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
45.“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.” ― Mother Teresa
46.“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I 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?” ― Mother Teresa
47.“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.” ― Mother Teresa
48.“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.” ― Mother Teresa
49.“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ― Mother Teresa
50.“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” ― Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa – 20th Century Humanitarian | Biography
Find out about the life and charitable works of Mother Teresa, known as one of the great humanitarians of the 20th century, in this mini biography.
Summary
Mother Teresa found the inspiration to help people from her Catholic teachings but attained respect and widespread admiration for work in her adopted home of Calcutta. She respected the local Indian beliefs and traditions and always put humanity above religious divisions. Her charitable organization, the Missionaries of Charity, had spread to over 700 missions in over 100 countries. These missions provide food from soup kitchens, family assistance centers, schools, orphanages, hospitals, and dedicated rest houses for people with leprosy, AIDS, and even tuberculosis. Mother Teresa was a saint and a God’s true worker as she dedicated all of her life to make others easier and better.
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