“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
– Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
– Mother Teresa
“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
– Mother Teresa
“Intense love does not measure it just gives.”
– Mother Teresa
“Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.”
– Mother Teresa
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action”
– Mother Teresa
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”
– Mother Teresa
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
– Mother Teresa
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”
– Mother Teresa
“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?”
– Mother Teresa
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
– Mother Teresa
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
– Mother Teresa
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
– Mother Teresa
“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.”
– Mother Teresa
“We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.”
– Mother Teresa
“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.”
– Mother Teresa
“I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.”
– Mother Teresa
“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.”
– Mother Teresa
“At the hour of death when we come face-to-face with God, we are going to be judged on love; not how much we have done, but how much love we put into the doing.”
– Mother Teresa
