Mother Teresa Quotes

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

Abortion is profoundly anti-women.

Spread your love everywhere you go.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.

Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.

Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.

We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.

The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.

I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs.

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.

Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.

Let us love one another as God loves each one of us. And where does this love begin? In our own home. How does it begin? By praying together.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved.

I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.

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

Keep your heart pure. A pure heart is necessary to see God in each other. If you see God in each other, there is love for each other, then there is peace.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything.

May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.

Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.

Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.

Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.

Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus

We cannot really know God if we do not pray.

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.