Mother Teresa Quotes
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If abortion isn't wrong, then nothing is wrong.
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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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Real prayer is union with God.
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In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.
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Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
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God is never late, but rarely early.
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Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.
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The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.
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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.
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But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult.
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Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God
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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.
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The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
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When you don't have anything, then you have everything.
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If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.
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Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses
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Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
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The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.
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In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.
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Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.
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Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
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It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
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Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.
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Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you and I! The current is God! We have the power to allow the current to flow through us and thus to generate the light of the world: JESUS - or to refuse to be used and, thus, allow the darkness to spread.