Mother Teresa Quotes – Wisdom and Inspiration from a Compassionate Soul

Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.

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

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

Do small things with great love.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for is a much greater poverty than being poor materially.

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

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

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

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

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

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.

Peace begins with a smile.

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

Everything that is not given is lost.

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

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

Mother Teresa Quotes – Wisdom and Inspiration from a Compassionate Soul part 2

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.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.

Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.

There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love.

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 cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.

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…

When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

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

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

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

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

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

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.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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

We must know that we have been created for greater things.

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

Every home, every heart, every feeling, every moment of happiness is incomplete without you, only you can complete this world.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

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

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