--- title: "8 Burning Quotes By Mother Teresa" description: "8 Burning quotes by Mother Teresa. Plus more from Mother Teresa and more Burning sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71e/mother-teresa-196_burning_it-takes-oil-to-keep-the-lamps-burning-2_290471.jpg" --- > [It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/it-takes-oil-to-keep-the-lamps-burning/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71e/mother-teresa-196_burning_it-takes-oil-to-keep-the-lamps-burning-2_290471.jpg) > [In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/in-order-to-keep-the-lamp-burning-you-have-to-keep-putting-the-oil-in/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be6/mother-teresa-196_burning_in-order-to-keep-the-lamp-burning-you-ha_571025.jpg) > [Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/joy-is-prayer-joy-is-strength-joy-is-love-joy-is-a-net-of-love-by-2/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f6/mother-teresa-196_accepting_joy-is-prayer-joy-is-strength-joy-is-lov_647150.jpg) > [A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/a-joyful-heart-is-the-normal-result-of-a-heart-burning-with-love-she/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07a/mother-teresa-196_burning_a-joyful-heart-is-the-normal-result-of-a_839429.jpg) > [Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/do-not-look-for-jesus-away-from-yourselves-he-is-not-out-there-he-is/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57e/mother-teresa-196_burning_do-not-look-for-jesus-away-from-yourselv_1359738.jpg) > [I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/i-once-picked-up-a-woman-from-a-garbage-dump-and-she-was-burning-with/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/776/mother-teresa-196_able_i-once-picked-up-a-woman-from-a-garbage_1720944.jpg) > [If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/if-we-remember-that-god-loves-us-and-that-we-can-love-others-as-he/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/437/mother-teresa-196_america_if-we-remember-that-god-loves-us-and-tha_1836740.jpg) > [To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/to-students-i-pray-that-all-those-young-people-who-have-graduated-do/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f0/mother-teresa-196_able_to-students-i-pray-that-all-those-young_2763654.jpg) ## Other authors on Burning ## More by Mother Teresa > [Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/love-is-a-fruit-in-season-at-all-times-and-within-the-reach-of-every/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [All works of love are works of peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/all-works-of-love-are-works-of-peace/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/keep-the-corners-of-your-mouth-turned-up-speak-in-a-low-persuasive/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/holy-living-consists-in-doing-god-s-work-with-a-smile/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/i-don-t-look-at-anything-every-person-whether-he-is-hindu-muslim-or/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/we-may-not-be-able-to-give-much-but-we-can-always-give-the-joy-that/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/maybe-if-i-didn-t-pick-up-that-one-person-i-wouldn-t-have-picked-up/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/we-too-are-called-to-withdraw-at-certain-intervals-into-deeper/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/people-are-unrealistic-illogical-and-self-centered-love-them-anyway/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/recovering-in-a-calcutta-india-hospital-i-think-i-m-more-difficult/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [So many signatures for such a small heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/so-many-signatures-for-such-a-small-heart/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/they-should-give-until-it-hurts-maybe-a-very-small-thing-maybe-just-a/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/it-is-by-forgiving-that-one-is-forgiven/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/the-more-we-empty-ourselves-the-more-room-we-give-god-to-fill-us/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) > [Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/joy-is-prayer-joy-is-strength-joy-is-love-joy-is-a-net-of-love-by/) [Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/burning/mother-teresa/#itemlist", "name": "8 Burning Quotes By Mother Teresa", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mother Teresa" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/it-takes-oil-to-keep-the-lamps-burning/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71e/mother-teresa-196_burning_it-takes-oil-to-keep-the-lamps-burning-2_290471.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71e/mother-teresa-196_burning_it-takes-oil-to-keep-the-lamps-burning-2_290471.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71e/mother-teresa-196_burning_it-takes-oil-to-keep-the-lamps-burning-2_290471.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.” — Mother Teresa", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mother Teresa" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/in-order-to-keep-the-lamp-burning-you-have-to-keep-putting-the-oil-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be6/mother-teresa-196_burning_in-order-to-keep-the-lamp-burning-you-ha_571025.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be6/mother-teresa-196_burning_in-order-to-keep-the-lamp-burning-you-ha_571025.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be6/mother-teresa-196_burning_in-order-to-keep-the-lamp-burning-you-ha_571025.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.” — Mother Teresa", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Joy is prayer. 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