Mother Teresa Quotes
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God is never late, but rarely early.
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Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action
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I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
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The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy....We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is in love with God. All over the world people are hungry and thirsty for God's love. We meet that hunger by spreading joy. Joy is one of the best safeguards against temptation.
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Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money.
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When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love.
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God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.
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Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.
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To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
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Real prayer is union with God.
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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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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."
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It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.
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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.
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Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
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In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.
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Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
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I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.
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West Bengal state Government has decided that non-criminal persons should not be kept in these kind of places and asked us to take care of them. They should live in an atmosphere of love. They need to be loved.
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How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
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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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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
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Everything that is not given is lost.
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I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.