Mother Teresa Quotes
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Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.
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These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.
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If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?
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What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.
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God Is Using Gianna Jessen To Remind The World, That Each Human Being Is Precious To Him.
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God is never late, but rarely early.
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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
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The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.
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A family that prays together stays together. As we are united at this moment, let us join also the prayer of all and everyone. What you can do I cannot do. And what I can do you cannot do. But all of us together are doing something beautiful for God.
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Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!
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Why can't there be love that never gets tired?
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Give people not only your care, but also your heart.
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Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.
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Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see Jesus around us.
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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.
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It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.
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The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
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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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If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.
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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
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God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.
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We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.
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Even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.
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We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.