Mother Teresa Quotes

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

I never get mixed up in what governments should or should not do. Instead of spending time [on] those questions, I say, “Let me do [something] now.

Pray for me, Your Grace, that there be really “only Jesus” in me.51

When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.

As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves but does not speak … I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have free hand.

There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us - together - make something beautiful for God.

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

She encouraged others to smile in suffering as she herself did.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

We must become holy not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live His life fully in us.

In the silence of the heart God speaks.

We are not called to be successful, but faithful.

We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so; God is there.

I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn't expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.