Mother Teresa Quotes
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
~ Mother Teresa ~
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
~ Mother Teresa ~
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
~ Mother Teresa ~
It is not how much we do,
but how much love we put in the doing.
It is not how much we give,
but how much love we put in the giving.
~ Mother Teresa ~
If you are humble nothing will touch you,
neither praise nor disgrace,
because you know what you are.
~ Mother Teresa ~
Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure
as long as you have done your best.
~ Mother Teresa ~
There is only one God and He is God to all;
therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God.
I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu,
a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.
~ Mother Teresa ~
If we really want to love,
we must learn how to forgive.
~ Mother Teresa ~
When a poor person dies of hunger,
it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her.
It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to
give that person what he or she needed.
~ Mother Teresa ~
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen,
for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
~ Mother Teresa ~
It is not enough for us to say: "I love God," but I also have to love my neighbor.
St. John says that you are a liar if you say you love God
and you don't love your neighbor.
How can you love God whom you do not see,
if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live?
~ Mother Teresa ~
I see God in every human being.
When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself.
Is it not a beautiful experience?
~ Mother Teresa ~
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
~ Mother Teresa ~
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
~ Mother Teresa ~
There is a terrible hunger for love.
We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness.
We must have the courage to recognize it.
The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.
~ Mother Teresa ~
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.
But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom.
It is not a mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom.
There is no television here, no this, no that.
But we are perfectly happy.
~ Mother Teresa ~
If we pray, we will believe;
If we believe, we will love.
If we love, we will serve.
~ Mother Teresa ~
You and I, we are the Church, no?
We have to share with our people.
Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing.
Jesus made it very clear.
Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.
Give a glass of water, you give it to me.
Receive a little child, you receive me.
Clear.
~ Mother Teresa ~
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
~ Mother Teresa ~
Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world
who live and die in poverty and hunger.
Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread,
and by our understanding love,give them peace and joy.
~ Mother Teresa ~
The hunger for love
is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~ Mother Teresa ~
The most terrible poverty
is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
~ Mother Teresa ~
If you cannot feed a hundred people,
then feed just one.
~ Mother Teresa ~
Where there is great love,
there are always great miracles.
~ Mother Teresa ~
We know that whatever we do is simply a droplet in the ocean.
But if that droplet were missing, the ocean would be lacking.
~ Mother Teresa ~
Joy is a net of love
by which you can catch souls.
~ Mother Teresa ~
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Be the living expression of God's kindness:
kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
~ Mother Teresa ~
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
~ Mother Teresa ~
Peace begins
with a smile.
~ Mother Teresa ~
There is no greater sickness in the world today
than the lack of love.
~ Mother Teresa ~
