Famous Mother Teresa Quotes on Love and Peace

I heard somewhere that we should all treat others with love and kindness, these famous Mother Teresa Quotes on love and peace will motivate you to see all the love, peace, and goodness surrounded in the world. As we all know Mother Teresa was a selfless human, these selfless quotes by her will help you and motivate you to be a selfless person.

We all remember Mother Teresa for her kind heart, her charitable work, and what a beautiful person she was.

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Mother Teresa was born on 26 August 1910 with name of Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu. She was honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, as an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.

We are here sharing some wise quotes by Mother Teresa on love, peace and kindness.

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”
― Mother Teresa

“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
― Mother Teresa,

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?”
― Mother Teresa

“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

“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

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
― Mother Teresa

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.”
― Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love and Peace

“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

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“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

“Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.”
― Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
― Mother Teresa

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
― Mother Teresa

“Intense love does not measure it just gives. ”
― Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“Never be so busy as not to think of others.”
― Mother Teresa

“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
― Mother Teresa

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
― Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“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

“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
― Mother Teresa

Famous Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“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

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“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

“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

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
― Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“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

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

“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

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
― Mother Teresa

“There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”
― Mother Teresa

Inspiring Mother Teresa Quotes on Love Anyway

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa

do it anyway famous Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”
― Mother Teresa

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

“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.”
― Mother Teresa

do it anyway famous Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”
― Mother Teresa

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
― Mother Teresa

“Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.”
― Mother Teresa

do it anyway famous Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is ‘Abortion’, because it is a war against the child… A direct killing of the innocent child, ‘Murder’ by the mother herself… And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love… And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts…”
― Mother Teresa

Other Mother Teresa Quotes on Love Do it anyway

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
― Mother Teresa

“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”
― Mother Teresa

do it anyway famous Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”
― Mother Teresa

“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

“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

do it anyway famous Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.”
― Mother Teresa

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
― Mother Teresa

“The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.”
― Mother Teresa of Calcutta

do it anyway famous Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“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

“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
― Mother Teresa

Peaceful Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

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

do it anyway famous Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“Give, but give until it hurts.”
― Mother Teresa

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

“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

do it anyway famous Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“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

“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.”
― Mother Teresa

“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor . . . 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, kindness in your warm greeting.”
― Mother Teresa

do it anyway famous Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.”
― Mother Teresa

“Live simply so others may simply live.”
― Mother Teresa

Beautiful Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“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

do it anyway famous Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”
― Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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

“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
― Mother Teresa

“Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.”
― Mother Teresa

“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

“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

“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”
― Mother Teresa

“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
― Mother Teresa

“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”
― Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“If I look at the mass I will never act.”
― Mother Teresa

“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

“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. Work without love is slavery.”
― Mother Teresa

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
― Mother Teresa

“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”
― Mother Teresa

“Life is a game, play it.”
― Mother Teresa

“The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace”
― Mother Teresa

“It is easy to love 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

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
― Mother Teresa

“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

“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.”
― Mother Teresa

“A life not lived for others is not a life.”
― Mother Teresa

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
― Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“Work without love is slavery.”
― Mother Teresa

“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

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

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