Beautiful Mother Teresa quotes With Images
Mother Teresa quotes: Mother Teresa was an Albanian Roman Catholic religious sister born in Skopje. She lived in Macedonia for about 18 years and then moved to Ireland and finally settled in India where she lived for the rest of her life. Her real name was Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu. While she was born on 26 August she considered the date she was baptized on, to be her real birthday which was August 27.
Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was the youngest of all her siblings. According to Mother Teresa’s biography, she was fascinated by the stories of missionaries in Bengal when she was very young. She founded the Missionaries of charity which is a Roman Catholic religious congregation that was composed of around 4500 sisters. It was active in around about 133 countries.
The Missionaries of Charity ran hospitals and homes for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis patients and also ran dispensaries and mobile clinics and not only that but they also had children and family counseling programs, orphanages, schools and it vowed to help the poorest of the poor with free services.
Mother Teresa spent the better part of her life working for the poor and disadvantaged people and that is also the reason she was awarded the Nobel peace prize. She died at the age of 87 in Calcutta, India after a very productive and inspiring life.
Below are some of the 50 most popular Mother Teresa Quotes with pictures.
1: “Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.”
2: “Blessed mother Teresa “being unwanted, unloved, uncared, for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
3: “If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.” mother teresa love quotes
4: “We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love & compassion.”
5: “God allows the failure but he does not want the discouragement.”
6: “Any country that accepts abortion, is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants.” – mother teresa quotes on abortion.
7: “I don’t know what God is doing. He knows. We do not understand, but one thing I’m sure, he doesn’t make a mistake” –quotes from mother teresa.
8: “Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own”
9: “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”
10: “To forgive takes love, to forget takes humility.”.
11: “Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence. Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness.” – mother teresa quotes kindness.
12: “Peace begins with a smile.” – mother teresa smile quotes.
13: “Poverty is not made by God, it is created by you and me when we don’t share what we have.”
14: “I am like a little pencil in God’s hand… he does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.”
15: “Do not let the past disturb you -just leave everything in the sacred heart, and begin again with joy.”
16: “This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.”
17: “Give of your hands -to serve- and your hearts to love.”
18: “Go out into the world today and love the people you meet.”
19: “The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith of love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace.”
20: “Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things.But there are very few people who will do the small things.”
21: “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
22: “Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.”
23: “Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.”
24: “I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now i know that prayer changes us, and we change things.”
25: “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.” -mother teresa quotes .
26: “Anything that destroys god’s gift of motherhood destroys His most precious gif to women the ability to LOVE as a woman.”
27: “Everything starts from prayer.”
28: “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
29: “Don’t give in to discouragement. Never bother about people’s opinions. Be obedient to truth.”
30:“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
31: “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
32: “Whatever you do for your family, for your children, fo your husband, for your wife, you do for god. All we do our prayers, our work suffering, is for Jesus.”
33: “Let nothing trouble you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing; God never changes. Patience obtains all things. He who possesses God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.”
34:“Faith in action is love- and love in action is service.”
35: “If we cannot love the person whom we see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?”
36: “Some people come in your life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”
37:“God has not called me to be successful. he called me to be Faithful.”
38: “Everything starts from prayer.”
39: “A clean heart can see God, can speak to god and can see the love of God in others.”
40: “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”
41: “Spread love everywhere you go let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
42: “Silence …exists so that we might speak to God. And it is in silence that God communicates his graces to us.”
43:“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.”
44: “Be faithful in small things because it is them that your strength lies.”
45: “Live simply so others may simply live.”
46:“If we pray, we will believe. If we believe, we will love. If we love, we will serve.”
47:“God has not called me to be successful. He called me to be faithful.”
48:“My secret is simple– I Pray.”
49:“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hurts to love them. So spread your love everywhere you go.”
50:“Works of love are works of peace.”
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