Mother Teresa Quotes

If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too.

Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.

Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life.

The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.

There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful together

By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.

In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.

Peace begins wilt smile.

In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.

If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?

The beginning of prayer is silence.

I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.

The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.

O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!

My key to heaven is that I loved Jesus in the night.

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.

People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

Do great in the small things.

Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

Behold , I have graven you upon the palm of my hand, that is what Jesus came on earth to do: to proclaim, to give us the Good News that God loves us, that we are precious to Him.

Peace beings with a smile

Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Holiness is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people. It is meant for you and for me and for all of us. It is a simple duty, because if we learn to love, we learn to be holy.

In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.

Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.

We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.

I remember I picked up a person from the street who was nearly eaten up with maggots, and he said, I have lived like an animal, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them

Why can't there be love that never gets tired?

love only variously everyday The meaning of love

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.

Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant.

Every time I ask for visa, they (USA) give me visa for five years. I have never had any problem in getting a visa to any nation.

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 do like that.

Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.

If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who can show him God's love.

If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.

Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service.