Mother Teresa Quotes

Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see Jesus around us.

You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.

The first step to becoming is to will it.

Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.

People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.

Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

Be not afraid. God loves you & wants us to love one another as He loves us. As miserable, weak and sinful as we are, He loves us with an infinitely faithful love.

If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

I am not called to be successful, I am called to be faithful.

Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved

Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God.

We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else

Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.

In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.

Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

To love others as God loves you, that is the measure of success

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.

Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.

Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.

Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.

If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship

Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.

Just show up and things will happen.

I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time.

He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.

The ocean is made of drops.

We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.

There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.

The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose.

Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down.

‎I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.

We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

Don't wait to be led...do it yourself, person to person.

There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy.

Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.

The family that prays together stays together, and if they stay together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And works of love are always works of peace.

It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?

To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.