Mother Teresa Quotes

Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)

Saint Mother Teresa, also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), born Anjezë Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was an Albanian-born Indian citizen, Roman Catholic Sister, and Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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Native Name: Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu

Alternative Names: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu • Blessed Teresa of Calcutta • Saint Teresa of Calcutta • Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu

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When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.

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

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

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

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

"It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa

I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.