Mother Teresa Quotations | Page 5

To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.

I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.

A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her.

Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see Jesus around us.

When you don't have anything, then you have everything.

If u cannot love a person whom you see,then how can you love God whom you have never seen..

Never Let Anyone Come to You Without Coming Away Better and Happier

Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.

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.

Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down.

Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.

Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.

We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time...

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.

I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.

We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.

Peace starts with a smile

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

What we need is love without getting tired.

God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

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

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.

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. ---Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. Speak tenderly to them. 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.

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.

I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their human dignity, which is neither less nor different from the dignity of any other human being.

There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.

One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India-I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving-it is not in the result of loving.

I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.

Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.

The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.

I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.

If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?

We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: 'What will convert America and save the world?' My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer.

Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.

A smile is the beginning of peace.

Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love

Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace

Love should be as natural as living and breathing.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

I am not called to be successful, I am called to be faithful.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor -- He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.

Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you really don't want to smile at. Do it for Peace.

Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.

We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together.

God is never late, but rarely early.

If you pray more you will pray better.

It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.

Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy!

Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. 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. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Life is luck, make it.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.

One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.

In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.

Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work.

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.

The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.

God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.