Quotes by Nuns - Page 2

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother Teresa
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.
Mother Teresa
The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love.
Mother Teresa
Let me have a faithful account of all that concerns you; I would know everything, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.
Héloïse d'Argenteuil
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.
Mother Teresa
Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.
Corita Kent
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.
Mother Teresa
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.
Mother Teresa
I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.
Mother Teresa
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.
Mother Teresa
[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things. But there are basic human rights I believe that every human being has. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the United Nations says it for me. And it says there are two basic rights that can't be negotiated that government doesn't give for good behavior and doesn't take away for bad behavior. And it's the right not to be tortured and not to be killed. Because the flip side of this is that then when you say OK we're gonna turn over -- they truly have done heinous things, so now we will turn over to the government now the right to take their life. It involves other people in doing essentially the same kind of
Helen Prejean
A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
Mother Teresa
Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
Mother Teresa
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Mother Teresa
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.
Mother Teresa
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?
Mother Teresa
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
Mother Teresa
From today onwards, I am going to strive for the greatest purity of soul, that the rays of God's grace may be reflected in all their brilliance.
St. Faustina Kowalska
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.
Mother Teresa
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.
Mother Teresa
It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.
Corita Kent
A woman's greatest and most perduring failure will be her failure to love. It is certainly not without significance that so many women presently pressing for power on the political, sociological or ecclesial scene are unbeautiful in their unsmilling press for dominance. Contorted faces and clenched fists are particularly repellant in woman, who is gifted with unique powers to radiate love and extend healing hands.
Mother Mary Francis P.C.C.
The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
Joan D. Chittister
Great love can change small things into great ones, and it is only love which lends value to our actions. And the purer our love becomes, the less there will be within us for the flames of suffering to feed upon, and the suffering will cease to be a suffering for us; it will become a delight! By the grace of God, I have received such a disposition of heart that I am never so happy as when I suffer for Jesus, whom I love with every beat of my heart.
St. Faustina Kowalska
If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.
Helen Prejean
In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
Mother Teresa
Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).
Wendy Beckett
Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
Mother Teresa
O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it is.
Macrina Wiederkehr
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?
Mother Teresa
You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have.
Mother Teresa
This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.
Wendy Beckett
Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
Joan D. Chittister
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
Mother Teresa
The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence.
Maria Faustina Kowalska
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.
Maria Faustina Kowalska
God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.
Mother Teresa
I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is Peace
Mother Teresa
If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.
Mother Teresa
God hasn't called us to be successful, just faithful.
Mother Teresa
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Monica Baldwin
Consider everything an experiment.
Corita Kent
[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.
Héloïse d'Argenteuil
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?
Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!
Héloïse d'Argenteuil
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.
Corita Kent
Joy is strength.
Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa
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.
Mother Teresa
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
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.
Mother Teresa
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa