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To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
Mother Teresa
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In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.
Mother Teresa
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I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.
Mother Teresa
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Everything that is not given is lost.
Mother Teresa
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You know my God. My God is called love.
Mother Teresa
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We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
Mother Teresa
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We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.
Mother Teresa
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There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.
Mother Teresa
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Be faithful in the little things.
Mother Teresa
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The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.
Mother Teresa
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You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.
Mother Teresa
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I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.
Mother Teresa
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It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
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Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
Mother Teresa
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To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.
Mother Teresa
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The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.
Mother Teresa
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Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa
Mother Teresa
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You can't do God's work without suffering.
Mother Teresa
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No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?
Mother Teresa
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Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.
Mother Teresa
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If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world. From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for. God bless you!
Mother Teresa
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There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ: Jesus is my God, Jesus is my Spouse, Jesus is my Life, Jesus is my only Love, Jesus is my All in All; Jesus is my Everything.
Mother Teresa
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We cannot really know God if we do not pray.
Mother Teresa
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I am sure that all people know deep down inside that the little child in the mother's womb is a human being from the moment of conception, created in the image of God to love and be loved. Let us pray that nobody will be afraid to protect that little child, to help that little child to be born. Jesus said: 'If you receive a little child in my name, you receive me.'
Mother Teresa
