Mother Teresa Quotes

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

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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

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

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

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

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

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.

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.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

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.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

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

Peace begins with a smile.

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

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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