Mother Teresa Quotes

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

Faith, Strength, Small

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

Love, Hurt, Until

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

Love, Smile, Beginning

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

Love, Home, Put

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

God, Nature, Friend

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

Peace, Forgotten, Belong

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

Nothing, Person, Poverty

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

Love, Leaving, Happier

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.
Mother Teresa

Greatest, Sometimes, Poverty

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

Peace, Smile, Begins

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

Love, Home, Care

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

Loneliness, Feeling, Poverty

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

Work, Lonely, Humble

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

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.
Mother Teresa

Peace, Mother, Greatest

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.
Mother Teresa

Less, Ocean, Ourselves

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.
Mother Teresa

Love, Peace, Money

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

Love, Money, Giving

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

Good, Smile, Simple

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

Love, Difficult, Bread

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.
Mother Teresa

Love, Keep, Heard

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa

Love, Measure, Intense

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

Words, Give, Light

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

Love, Someone, Rich

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

Love, Times, Within

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Biography

Nationality: Albanian

Type: Leader

Born: August 26, 1910

Died: September 5, 1997

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