Mother Teresa Quotes

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

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that...

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger,...

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listeni...

Joy is strength.

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

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hu...

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

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

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

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

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

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. H...

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

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

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... Th...

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

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

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world ...

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

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

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

It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small thin...

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is si...

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left...

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

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need...

Joy is prayer joy is strength: joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

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

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

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you...

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

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

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, toget...

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

Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you a...

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

Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it i...

Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, "I can do all thin...

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

Smile at each other smile at your wife smile at your husband smile at your children smile at eac...

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

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

At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving ...

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

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

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind...

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

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

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we was...

Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoev...

It is our emptiness and lowliness that God needs and not our plenitude. These are a few of the ways ...

Let Him empty and transform you ;and afterwards fill the chalice of your hearts to the brim, that yo...

The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is P...

Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes ...

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

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

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

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the sam...

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

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

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

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

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of la...

I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to...

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have t...

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

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

If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in...

Peace begins with a smile..

Give, but give until it hurts.

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

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

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t...

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a ...

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

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the dr...

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

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and unca...

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

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

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

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence....

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

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

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer be...

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can ...

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

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the ...

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

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

I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide...

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

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

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

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