Mother Teresa Quotes
-
Each time anyone comes in contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love.
-
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
-
Helping hands are better than Praying Lips
-
You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy.
-
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
-
Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other's failures - rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God.
-
Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a dying man whom she took back to a home where he could die in love and peace. 'I live like an animal in the streets,' the man told her. 'Now I will die like an angel'.
-
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
-
I have said often, and I am sure of it, that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is abortion. If a mother can kill her own child, what is there to stop you and me from killing each other? The only one who has the right to take life is the The One who has created it.
-
Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
-
By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.
-
One day I met a lady who was dying of cancer in a most terrible condition. And I told her, I say, "You know, this terrible pain is only the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you."
-
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
-
I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.
-
She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.
-
Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.
-
There are others who take up that liberating role. I have no time to spend for that.
-
God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.
-
I was asked why I did not give a rod with which to fish, in the hands of the poor, rather than give the fish itself as this makes them remain poor. So I told them: The people whom we pick up are not able to stand with a rod. So today I will give them fish and when they are able to stand, then I shall send them to you and you can give them the rod. That is your job. Let me do my work today.
-
Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other-that man, that woman, that child is my brother or my sister. If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we would still need tanks and generals?
-
We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.