Mother Teresa quotes:

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Peace begins with a smile.

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

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

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

  • 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."

  • We need silence to be able to touch souls.

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

  • The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.

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

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

  • How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

  • 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?

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

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

  • One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

  • Life is beauty admire it!

  • Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

  • 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.

  • Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: 'What will convert America and save the world?' My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer.

  • 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.

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

  • The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

  • What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

  • A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.

  • More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

  • If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

  • 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.

  • Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.

  • Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.

  • Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

  • If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

  • If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

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

  • If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions. Be humble and you will never be disturbed. Remember St. Aloysius, who said he would continue to play billiards even if he knew he was going to die. Do you play well? Sleep well? Eat well? These are duties. Nothing is small for God.

  • Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.

  • Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.

  • 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.

  • If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

  • There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.

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

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

  • Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

  • A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her.

  • Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.

  • I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

  • Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others. ...

  • Christ prays in me, Christ works in me, Christ thinks in me, Christ looks through my eyes, Christ speaks through my words, Christ works with my hands, Christ walks with my feet, Christ loves with my heart. As St Paul's prayer was: I belong to Christ and nothing will separate me from the love of Christ. It was that oneness, oneness with God in the Holy Spirit.

  • 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.

  • It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

  • A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.

  • We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

  • Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.

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

  • I belong to Jesus. He must have the right to use me without consulting me.

  • Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.

  • Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.

  • Holy Angels, our advocates, our brothers, our counselors, our defenders, our enlighteners, our friends, our guides, our helpers, our intercessors - Pray for us.

  • Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

  • Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread, and by our understanding love,give them peace and joy.

  • There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.

  • In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.

  • What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

  • Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.

  • 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.

  • We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

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

  • If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

  • Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

  • Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

  • Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

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

  • We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.

  • It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

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

  • A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.

  • Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

  • If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.

  • Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls everywhere and peace on earth. We cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the difference it will make in our world

  • If people spent one hour per week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended

  • 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.

  • Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

  • 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.

  • If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.

  • Be not afraid. God loves you & wants us to love one another as He loves us. As miserable, weak and sinful as we are, He loves us with an infinitely faithful love.

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

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