Mother Teresa Quotes

Peace begins with a smile. Only God knows our true needs.

Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa

Love, to be real, must cost - it must hurt - it must empty us of self.

Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.

Mother Teresa

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

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Teresa

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

Mother Teresa

Life is a promise; fulfill it.

Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa