1. One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.

- Mother Teresa

2. In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

- Mother Teresa

3. He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.

- Mother Teresa

4. Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus – a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

6. 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.

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

8. I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

- Mother Teresa

9. Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

- Mother Teresa

10. Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

- Mother Teresa

11. Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

- Mother Teresa

12. Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

- Mother Teresa

13. Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

- Mother Teresa

14. If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.

- Mother Teresa

15. When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.

- Mother Teresa

16. People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

- Mother Teresa

17. Jesus gives me the opportunity to feed Him by feeding those who are hungry, to clothe Him by clothing those who are naked, to heal Him by caring for those who are sick, and to offer Him shelter by housing those who are homeless and unwanted.

- Mother Teresa

18. Never be so busy as not to think of others.

- Mother Teresa

19. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

- Mother Teresa

20. A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

- Mother Teresa

21. 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.

- Mother Teresa

22. Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

- Mother Teresa

23. Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

- Mother Teresa

24. Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.

- Mother Teresa

25. I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?

- Mother Teresa

26. Work without love is slavery.

- Mother Teresa

27. Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

- Mother Teresa

28. If I look at the mass I will never act.

- Mother Teresa

29. In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

- Mother Teresa

30. Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

- Mother Teresa

31. Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.

- Mother Teresa

32. I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love.

- Mother Teresa

33. One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

- Mother Teresa

34. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

- Mother Teresa

35. At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

- Mother Teresa

36. When you have nothing left but God, you have more than enough to start over again.

- Mother Teresa

37. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

- Mother Teresa

38. God made the world for the delight of human beings – if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we’ve waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us – you just can’t resist Him. I believe there’s no such thing as luck in life, it’s God’s love, it’s His.

- Mother Teresa

39. A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

- Mother Teresa

40. 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.

- Mother Teresa

41. Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

- Mother Teresa

42. It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

- Mother Teresa

43. The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

- Mother Teresa

44. The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

- Mother Teresa

45. If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.

- Mother Teresa

46. Life is a game, play it.

- Mother Teresa

47. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

- Mother Teresa

48. I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I’ll be there.

- Mother Teresa

49. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

- Mother Teresa

50. It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

52. We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

- Mother Teresa

53. There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

- Mother Teresa

54. I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.

- Mother Teresa

55. Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

- Mother Teresa

56. I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus.

- Mother Teresa

57. Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

- Mother Teresa

58. At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God’s own love and concern.

- Mother Teresa

59. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

- Mother Teresa

60. We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

62. I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I’m supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I’m praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.

- Mother Teresa

63. I have more often as my companion ‘darkness.’ And when the night becomes very thick- and it seems to me as if I will end up in hell – then I simply offer myself to Jesus.

- Mother Teresa

64. Intense love does not measure it just gives.

- Mother Teresa

65. Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.

- Mother Teresa

66. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

- Mother Teresa

67. I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.

- Mother Teresa

68. I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

- Mother Teresa

69. If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

71. Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

- Mother Teresa

72. Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

74. In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.

- Mother Teresa

75. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

- Mother Teresa

76. 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.

- Mother Teresa

77. We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

- Mother Teresa

78. Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other – it doesn’t matter who it is – and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

- Mother Teresa

79. Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

- Mother Teresa

80. Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them…For as long as you are green, you can grow.

- Mother Teresa

81. The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

- Mother Teresa

82. The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

- Mother Teresa

83. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

- Mother Teresa

84. Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don’t need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.

- Mother Teresa

85. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

- Mother Teresa

86. 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.

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa