Mother Teresa Quotes

Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.

I can't help thousands, I can help only the one who stands before me.

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 we could use.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration.

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

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.

Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.

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

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.

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

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

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.

A smile is the beginning of peace.

Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold.

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.

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

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

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.

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.

Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love.

Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.

Love should be as natural as living and breathing.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

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

Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

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 need silence to be able to touch souls.

Live simply so others may simply live.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.

We are not here to be successful, we are here to be FAITHFUL

Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.