Mother Teresa Quotes (88+)

Enjoy the best Mother Teresa Quotes. Quotations by Mother Teresa (Albanian-Indian Catholic Nun)
Aug 26, 1910 - Sep 05, 1997

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones—the ones at home.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

The greatest poverty in the world is the lack of love.

About the Author

Saint Mother Teresa (1910–1997) was a Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun and missionary. Her life was dedicated to the service of the poor and dying in Calcutta through her order, the Missionaries of Charity, becoming a global symbol of compassion.