Mother Teresa Quotes

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you

Small things done with great love will change the world.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.

I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.

Helping hands are better than Praying Lips

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

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?

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

You are greater than you know.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .

If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving.

There is no key to happiness; the door is always open

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.

When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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.

Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.

The greatest good is what we do for others.

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World. But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.

Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.

We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.