70 Best Quotes by Mother Teresa on Kindness and Love

1. “The Hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.“

2. “To love, it is necessary to give. To give, it is necessary to be free from selfishness, to have the courage of poverty.“

3. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.“

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

5. “We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.“

6. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.“

7. “If you want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.“

8. “If you do your work with joy, you can bring many souls to God. Joy is prayer, a sign of our generosity, evident in our eyes, our faces, our actions.“

9. “I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.“

10. “Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.“

11. “Contemplation is simply to realize God’s constant presence and his tender love for us.“

12. “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.“

13. “If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.“

14. “Even God cannot fill what is full already. We must empty ourselves so that God can fill us.“

15. “A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace. “

16. “Our first great responsibility is to be a family. We are to reveal first, to one another, something of God’s own love and concern and tenderness. When others see us, they should say, ‘See how they love one another.“

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

18. “I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.“

19. “Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.“

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

21. “Keep giving Jesus to people not by words but by example, by being in love with Jesus.“

22. “Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.“

23. “God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. “

24. “You don’t know how very happy I am to let God just do whatever he likes with me.“

25. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.“

26. “Live simply so others may simply live.“

27. “If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.“

28. “Let us keep very close to Our Lady and she will make that same spirit grow in each one of us.“

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

30. “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.“

31. “If we pray, we will believe, If we believe, we will love, if we love, we will serve.“

32. “Until you know deep inside that Jesus thirsts for you, you can’t begin to know who he wants to be for you, or what he wants you to be for him.“

33. “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.“

34. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.“

35. “Deepen your prayer life and you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care.“

36. “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did? “

37. “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.“

38. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.“

39. “Obedience makes us most like Jesus and one with him. If we really obey, it is a constant crucifixion.“

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

41. ” It’s cheaper for the Elites to make saints for the poor to pray to for help rather than end poverty. “

42. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.“

43. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.“

44. “Give your heart to God, deliberately, knowingly, willingly. It belongs to him.“

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

46. “We must make ourselves attractive to God, like Our Lady. Holiness is a normal thing, nothing extraordinary.“

47. “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.“

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

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

50. “If we have a pure heart, then we can see God.“

51. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. “

52. “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.“

53. “It is easy to be proud and harsh and selfish, so easy. But we have been created for.“

54. “The Good News is that God still loves the world through each one of you. You are God’s good news, you are God’s love in action.“

55. “Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.“

56. “Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net by which we catch souls.“

57. “We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.“

58. “Nothing will destroy our joy of loving Jesus as much as money. It is one of the keys of the devil that will open any heart. It is the beginning of great evil. “

59. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.“

60. “In this life, we cannot always do great things. But we can do small things with great love.“

61. “Our work is not a profession but a vocation, chosen to satiate the thirst of Jesus by total surrender, complete, without counting the cost.“

62. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.“

63. ” I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. “

64. “Only one secret: The closer we come to Jesus, the better we will know his thirst. “

65. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. “

66. “God is love, and when we love we are like God. This is what Jesus meant when he said, “Be perfect as your Father is perfec.“

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

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

69. “We will be the happiest people in the world if we belong to God, if we place ourselves at his disposal, if we let him use us as he pleases.“

70. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.“