Mother Teresa Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa