Mother Teresa Quotes - Page 2

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is Peace

If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.

God hasn't called us to be successful, just faithful.

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

Joy is strength.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

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 you to grow up in greater love for each other.

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

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person.

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.

He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.

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.

Give, but give until it hurts.

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

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.

every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.

Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

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.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.

God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.

Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. 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.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn't expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind one's own business.Not to want to manage other people's affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To pass over the mistakes of others.To accept insults and injuries.To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.To be kind and gentle even under provocation.Never to stand on one's dignity.To choose always the hardest.

Let Him empty and transform you ;and afterwards fill the chalice of your hearts to the brim, that you in your turn, may give of your abundance. Seek Him. Knowledge will make you strong as death. Love Him trustfully without looking back, without fear. Believe that Jesus and Jesus alone is life. Serve Jesus, casting aside and forgetting all that troubles or worries you, make loved the love that is not loved.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.

I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.