Humility Quotes by Mother Teresa

14 Humility quotes by Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa’s brief yet potent reflections on humility echo her lifelong devotion to service. Each of the fourteen statements invites a gentle pause and a softer heart.

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If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

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The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you.

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We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

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Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity will lead to peace.

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Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity to peace

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The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we…

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Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge…

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Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted…

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Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may…

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Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hearts and…

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Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, your heart so full of love and humility,…

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The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability…

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We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small.…

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These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own…

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We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally;…

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People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

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Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.

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So many signatures for such a small heart.

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They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one…

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It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

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The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

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Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

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