Mother Teresa Quotes
-
We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.
-
Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.
-
Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.
-
We need to give Christ a chance to make use of us, to be His word and His work, to share His food and His clothing in the world today. If we do not radiate the light of Christ around us, the sense of the darkness that prevails in the world will increase.
-
The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.
-
We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved you
-
Real prayer is union with God.
-
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
-
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.
-
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
-
The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence in our Constitution that says: 'We will allow the good God to make plans for the future - for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come and we have only today to make Him known, loved and served.' So we do not worry about the future.
-
May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you... May you be content knowing you are a child of God... Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love. It is there for each and every one of you.
-
All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.
-
The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved.
-
Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.
-
I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.
-
I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.
-
Jesus wants me to tell you again...how much is the love He has for each one of you-beyond all what you can imagine...Not only He loves you, even more - He longs for you. He misses you when you don't come close. He thirsts for you. He loves you always, even when you don't feel worthy.
-
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.
-
In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.
-
Everything that is not given is lost.
-
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
-
Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.
-
Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses