Mother Teresa Quotations | Page 4

And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?

Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

There is no greater sickness in the world today than the lack of love.

If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?

In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.

Together we can do great things.

Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the distressing guise of the poor.

If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

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.

What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.

My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.

Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.

Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.

People crave attention and appreciation more than they do bread.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.

By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion.

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

Each time people come into contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love.

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.

I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.

Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness.

Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.

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.

Let's do something beautiful for God.

Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.

We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.

Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.

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.

I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts...

Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs.

The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose.

Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

If you're too busy to pray...you're too busy

If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?

Peace begins with a smile.

A Christian is the dwelling place of the living God. He created me, he chose me, He came to dwell in me, because he wanted me. Now that you have known how much God is in love with you it is but natural that you spend the rest of your life radiating that love.

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

To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.

The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you.

Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other-that man, that woman, that child is my brother or my sister. If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we would still need tanks and generals?

To love others as God loves you, that is the measure of success

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.

Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved...

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

If I look at the mass I will never act.

It takes a checkbook to change the world

I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.

You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.

Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.

Give that child to me. I want it. I will care for it. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.

If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor

Everything that is not given is lost.

Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions. These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents, and have grown up so full of love and joy!

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.

May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you... May you be content knowing you are a child of God... Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love. It is there for each and every one of you.

Our Father, here I am, at your disposal, your child, to use me to continue your loving the world, by giving Jesus to me and through me, to each other that we allow Jesus to love in us and through us with the love with which His Father loves him.

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

Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.

We are not here to be successful, we are here to be FAITHFUL

Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.

I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'

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

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

A Mother is the heart of the home

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.

Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

The #‎ poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.

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.