Mother Teresa

100 quotes

"We can do no great things; only small things with great love."

Mother Teresa

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."

Mother Teresa

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

Mother Teresa

"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."

Mother Teresa

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

Mother Teresa

"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Love them anyway.<br>If you do good, people will accuse you of having selfish ulterior motives.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Do good anyway.<br>If you are successful, you will gain false friends and true enemies.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Succeed anyway.<br>The good you do today will be forgotten by tomorrow.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Do good anyway.<br>Honesty and bluntness make you vulnerable.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Be honest and blunt anyway.<br>What you spend years building can be destroyed overnight.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Build it anyway.<br>People really need help but may attack you if you help them.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Help them anyway.<br>Even if you live your life, you will die someday.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Live your life anyway.<br>Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Give the world the best you have anyway."

Mother Teresa

"Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness."

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"Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway."

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"One must really have suffered oneself to help others."

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"I am like a pencil in God's hand. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has only to be allowed to be used."

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"Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand."

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"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."

Mother Teresa

"We are all pencils in the hand of God."

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"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

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"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."

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

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"Joy is a net of love with which you can catch souls."

Mother Teresa

"People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway."

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"I see God in every human being."

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"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into the giving."

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"Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart."

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"We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love."

Mother Teresa

"The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway."

Mother Teresa

"What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway."

Mother Teresa

"If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway."

Mother Teresa