Top 15 Mother Teresa Quotes

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Work without love is slavery.

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.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

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.

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

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

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

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

Love to be real, it must cost — it must hurt — it must empty us of self.

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.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

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.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

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...