Mother Teresa Love Quotations

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

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

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

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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

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

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

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

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

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

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

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

We can cure physical diesases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love>

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

I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

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

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

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

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't 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?

God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love....

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

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

Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.

If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.

You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.

Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.

A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.

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

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World. But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.

It is not enough for us to say: "I love God," but I also have to love my neighbor. St. John says that you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbor. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live?

There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

How much love did you put into what you did?

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.

I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us -- you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His.

There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love

Work without love is slavery.

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

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.

Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .

All works of love are works of peace.

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 to grow up in greater love for each other.

There is no greater sickness in the world today than the lack of love.

Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the distressing guise of the poor.

Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.

Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

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.

To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread, and by our understanding love,give them peace and joy.

A Christian is the dwelling place of the living God. He created me, he chose me, He came to dwell in me, because he wanted me. Now that you have known how much God is in love with you it is but natural that you spend the rest of your life radiating that love.

May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

To love others as God loves you, that is the measure of success

Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved...

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?

Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.

I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.

If u cannot love a person whom you see,then how can you love God whom you have never seen..

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.