Mother Teresa Quotes

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

We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.

How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.

Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, do his work through your hands, for you will be all-powerful with him to strengthen you.

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.

We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?

Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.

What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence.

I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

Be faithful in the little things.

Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.

Life is a dream, realise it.

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.

... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.

We will never know how much just a simple smile will do.

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money.

Spread love whenever you go.

The fruit of faith is love.

People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.

Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me.

My television is the tabernacle.

I have the feeling that we are in such a hurry that we do not have time to look at one another and smile.

But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult.

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In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled

It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!

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.

If you want to pray better, you have to pray more.

I always say "if you are afraid of them (the unborn), give them to me. Please, don't kill them."

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted.

Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor.

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.