Mother Teresa of Calcutta Quotes

Mother Teresa of Calcutta with baby

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta has served her whole life in honor of Jesus and his lost and forsaken children in many countries. She has seen and been a part of the healing of lives.... Blessed Mother Teresa has left with us some very beautiful inspirations. Here are a few......

A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God’s attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family.
Find them.
Love them.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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 own weakness.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance.
It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

We can do no great things...only small things with great love...
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

It is a poverty that A Child Must Die so that you may live as you wish.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. ~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
~Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta