Inspirational Quotations by Mother Teresa

  • We can do no great things,
    only small things with great love.
    From Issue 28
  • Give the world the best you have,
    and the best will come back to you.
    From Issue 63
  • If you judge people,
    You have no time to love them.
    From Issue 96
  • When I was crossing into Gaza,
    I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons.
    I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.
    From Issue 96
  • It is not how much we do,
    but how much love we put into doing it.
    It is not how much we give,
    but how much love we put into giving.
    From Issue 120
  • All our young lives we search for someone to love.
    Someone who makes us complete. We chose partners.
    We change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope.
    All the while wondering if there is someone,
    somewhere who might be searching for us?
    From Issue 191
  • If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
    From Issue 196
  • Kind words can be short and easy to
    speak, but their echoes are endless.
    From Issue 204
  • Smile at each other,
    smile at your wife, smile at your husband,
    smile at your children, smile at each other
    -- it doesn't matter who it is --
    and that will help you to grow up
    in greater love for each other.
    From Issue 208
  • TODAY
    Yesterday is gone.
    Tomorrow has not yet come.
    We have only today. Let us begin.
    From Issue 215
  • Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift to himself.
    From Issue 383
  • 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. We must find each other.
    From Issue 385
  • There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could see.
    From Issue 386
  • The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor.
    From Issue 391

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