Mother Teresa Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Gun, Compassion, Overcoming

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Family, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image

• I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Kindness, Work

• God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

  Mother Teresa

  Compassion, People, Giving

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Sad, Sympathy, Thinking

  Speech by the President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at the Birth Centenary Celebrations of Mother Teresa, pib.nic.in. August 30, 2010.

• We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Love Is

• We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

  Mother Teresa

  Yoga, Gun, Compassion

• Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power.

  Mother Teresa

  Happiness, Peace, Laughter

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

• They too, are created by the same loving hand of God which Created us...It is our duty to Protect Them and to promote their well-being.

  Mother Teresa

  Animal, Compassion, Hands

• Have a great compassion for people. To be able to have a heart full of compassion, we need to pray. Especially be kind, be loving to the poor. We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich. We are in debt to them. Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Heart, Compassion

• We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

  Mother Teresa

  Home, Compassion, Forgiving

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

• Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Father, Lying, Thinking

• Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

  Mother Teresa

  Compassion, Purpose, Our Love

• I believe God loves the world through us - through you and through me. We use Mother Teresa's name; it is only a name, but we are real co-workers and carriers of His love. Today God loves the world through us. Especially in times like these when people are trying to make God "was," it is you and I, by our love, by the purity of our lives, by our compassion, who prove to the world that God "is."

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Real, Believe

• I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Home, Compassion

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

• In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Compassion, Order

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.32, New World Library

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

  Mother Teresa

  Love Is, Compassion, Fruit

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