Mother Teresa Quotes (88+)

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

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

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.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

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.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?

Intense love does not measure; it just gives.

The success of love is in the loving—it is not in the result of loving.

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

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.

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.