Quotes by Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary

Lived from: 1910 - 1997

Born: 26 august 1910 Died: 5 september 1997

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  • It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
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  • Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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  • Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
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  • Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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  • Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
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  • I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
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  • I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
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  • I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
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  • 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.
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  • I'd rather bathe lepers than be interviewed by the press.
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  • If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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  • If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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  • In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love
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  • Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love
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  • Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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  • 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.
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  • Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
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What are the most famous quotes from Mother Teresa?

The two most famous quotes from Mother Teresa are:

  • "It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
  • "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

When did Mother Teresa live?

Mother Teresa was born in 1910 and died in the year 1997.