Mother Teresa Quotes

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.

There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love

Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.

Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus.

If you want to have world peace, go to your house and love your family.

The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved.

When you don't have anything, then you have everything.

The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace

Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared.

In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.

Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me.

We are fighting abortion through adoption.

I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.

What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.

All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.

People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

If people spent one hour per week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended

God made the world for the delight of human beings.

It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.

God loves the world through us.

The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.

Real prayer is union with God.

In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year. But we never refuse anybody. Everybody is most welcome.

Faith keeps the person who keeps the faith.

We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.

Stay very close to Our Lady. If you do this, you can do great things for God and the good of people.

My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.

It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.

It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.

Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

If abortion isn't wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If you cannot feed one hundred hungry people, then just feed one really well.

Love - the more you share with others, the more you have.

Nobody can convert you except God.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

God is never late, but rarely early.

I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.

It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.

Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.

Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

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.