70 Inspiring Quotes by Mother Teresa on Kindness, Love, and Charity

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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.

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

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

Joy is strength.

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.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

If now we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten how to see God in one another.

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.

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

When we come face to face with God, we are going to be judged on how much we loved.

One filled with the joy preaches without preaching.”

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.

Knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.