Mother Teresa Quotes

1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary
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“So many signatures for such a small heart.”
Bureaucracy
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Judgment and Judges
“One must really have suffered oneself to help others.”
Suffering
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
Action
“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
Service
“To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.”
Aid and Assistance
“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
Giving
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
Prayer
“We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.”
Things and Little Things
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
Poverty and The Poor
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
Kindness
“Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.”
Vocation
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
Peace
“In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love”
Love
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.”
Love
“I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.”
God
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”
Love
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”
Disease
“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”
Riches
“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
“There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.”
Action
“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.”
Jesus Christ
“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 and The Poor
“There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.”
Hunger
“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.”
Sympathy
“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.”
Abortion
“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.”
Aid and Assistance
“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
“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