Teresa Quotes
64 quotes by 56 authors
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Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort…
— Julie Burchill
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Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
— Erma Bombeck
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Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a…
— Mother Teresa
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For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.
— Danny Elfman
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I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns…
— Valerie Harper
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor…
— Wendie Malick
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MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God.…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi…
— Shahrukh Khan
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What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people…
— Peter Rollins
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If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If…
— Roddy Doyle
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Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila,…
— Robert Barron
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It's 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler. Can I play? Let's see. Mother Teresa had a…
— Lewis Black
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I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or…
— Jody Williams
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St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction…
— Thomas Keating
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India has no reason to be grateful to Mother Teresa
— Sanal Edamaruku
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I feel strongly that Mother Teresa’s life has a great message for young people. We so often feel powerless to do anything about the many…
— Craig Kielburger
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The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa — not often coupled with each…
— Anita Dunn
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Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa - not often coupled with each together, but the two people that I turn…
— Anita Dunn
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The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is going on. And…
— Brian Kolodiejchuk
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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…
— Mother Teresa
Who Wrote These Teresa Quotes
56 authors contributed a total of 64 Teresa Quotes, led by these top contributors: