Mother Teresa Quotes
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Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim's body to bury it, Hindus come and take away the dead to be cremated and Christians come and bury their dead.
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There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.
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The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.
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Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.
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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
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There are only two ways: either we love – and love in action is service – or we put hatred into action and destroy.
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The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family
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Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.
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These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.
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Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.
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People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.
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People are hungry for God. What a terrible meeting it would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.
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We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.
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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
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I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.
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We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
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Jesus has very clearly said in the gospel. "Whatever you do, do to the least of my brethren." Clear? That was the work of Jesus.
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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.
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Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.
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How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.
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Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.
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Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved... To love a person without any conditions, without any expectations. Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace. To love, it is necessary to give. To give, it is necessary to be free from selfishness.
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To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them but that they carry with them love, peace and joy. That they become the sunshine of God's love to our people, the hope of eternal happiness and the burning flame of love wherever they go. That they become carriers of God's love. That they be able to give what they have received. For they have received not to keep, but to share.
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The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.