Mother Teresa Quotes

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Peace begins with a smile..

I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.

Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me." By yourself you can do nothing, have nothing but sin, weakness and misery. All the gifts of nature and grace you have them from God.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta

It is not what we do it is how much love we put in the doing.

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

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

When you judge someone you have no time to love them.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

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

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

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

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.

I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.

Work without love is slavery.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

It is our emptiness and lowliness that God needs and not our plenitude. These are a few of the ways we can practice humility:Speak as little as possible of oneself.Mind one's own business.Avoid curiosity.Do not want to manage other people's affairs.Accept contradiction and correction cheerfully.Pass over the mistakes of others.Accept blame when innocent.Yield to the will of others.Accept insults and injuries.Accept being slighted, forgotten, and disliked.Be kind and gentle even under provocation.Do not seek to be specially loved and admired.Never stand on one's dignity.Yield in discussion even when one is right.Choose always the hardest.

The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love.

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.

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.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

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

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

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

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.