We’ve collected seventeen of the greatest quotes from Mother Teresa about life, love, faith, and more. We hope these Mother Teresa quotes will inspire and empower you. Enjoy!
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
– Mother Teresa
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
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
– Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
– Mother Teresa
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
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
– Mother Teresa
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
– Mother Teresa
Peace begins with a smile.
– Mother Teresa
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
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
– Mother Teresa
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
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
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
– Mother Teresa
