Mother Teresa Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

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

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

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

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

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.

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

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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

The greatest good is what we do for others.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

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

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

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

A life not lived for others is not a life.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

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

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

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

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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. . . .

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You are greater than you know.

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.

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?

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

Helping hands are better than Praying Lips

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Small things done with great love will change the world.

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