Mother Teresa Quotes

» I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

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

» Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

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

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

» Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

» Peace begins with a smile.

» Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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

» The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

» I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

» I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

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

» It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

» It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

» We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

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

» We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

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

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

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

» Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

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

» We are all pencils in the hand of God.

» We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

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

» Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

» There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

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

» Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

» I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

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

» Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

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

» The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

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

» Good works are links that form a chain of love.

» If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

» One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

» Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

» There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

» Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

» We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

» The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

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

» I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

» In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

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

» 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.

» Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

» Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

» There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

» It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

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

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

» Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

» We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

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

» Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

» There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

» God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

» Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

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