Mother Teresa Quotes
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Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.
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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.
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To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven.
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Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus
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Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.
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We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.
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It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another- not in the school, not from the teacher, but from you. It is very important that you share with your children the joy of that smile. There will be misunderstandings; every family has its cross, its suffering. Always be the first to forgive with a smile. Be cheerful, be happy.
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Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.
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Love only variously everyday The meaning of love
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Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.
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I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.
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We need silence to be able to touch silence .
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I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.
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We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.
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We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.
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Never be so busy as not to think of others.
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Love to be real, it must cost – it must hurt – it must empty us of self.
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The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in the way we walk, the way we receive, the way we serve.
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What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.
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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!
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Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship
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I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.