Here are the best Mother Teresa Quotes on Love, Life, and Peace.
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Mother Teresa Quotes on Love
There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
Joy is prayer, joy is strength: joy is love, joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Work without love is slavery.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Best Mother Teresa Quotes about Life
Together we can do great things.
I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.
Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
If we are humble, nothing will change us, neither praise nor discouragement.
Life is a challenge; we must take it.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.
You are greater than you know.
Life is a game, play it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
The profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
We fear the future because we are wasting today.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it Life is beauty, admire it Life is a dream, realize it.
When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.
Mother Teresa Quotes on Peace
Peace begins with a smile.
Whenever you share the love with others, you’ll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
All works of love are works of peace.
I don’t do great things. I do small things with great love.
Smile five times a day at someone you don’t really want to smile at all. Do it for peace.
Short Biography: Mother Teresa
Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who was born on August 26, 1910.
She was a controversial figure during her lifetime and after her death, but she was widely admired for her charitable work. She was commended and criticized for a variety of reasons, including her views on abortion and contraception, as well as the deplorable circumstances at her hospices for the dying.
Mother Teresa earned numerous awards, including the Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize in 1962 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Further Reads:
A Critic’s Lonely Quest: Revealing the Whole Truth About Mother Teresa — The New York Times
