Mother Teresa Quotes

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.
Mother Teresa
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.
Mother Teresa
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
Mother Teresa
If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person.
Mother Teresa
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
Mother Teresa
If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person.
Mother Teresa
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
It is not what we do it is how much love we put in the doing.
Mother Teresa
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
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We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope always hope.
Mother Teresa
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
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 you to grow up in greater love for each other.
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Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
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I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
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God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.
Mother Teresa
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa
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Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
Mother Teresa
Never be so busy as not to think of others.
Mother Teresa
Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
Mother Teresa
When you judge someone you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.
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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
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We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
Mother Teresa
At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern.
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Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
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Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
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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?
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If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.
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At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.
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every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing
Mother Teresa
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.
Mother Teresa
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.
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It is our emptiness and lowliness that God needs and not our plenitude. These are a few of the ways we can practice humility:Speak as little as possible of oneself.Mind one's own business.Avoid curiosity.Do not want to manage other people's affairs.Accept contradiction and correction cheerfully.Pass over the mistakes of others.Accept blame when innocent.Yield to the will of others.Accept insults and injuries.Accept being slighted, forgotten, and disliked.Be kind and gentle even under provocation.Do not seek to be specially loved and admired.Never stand on one's dignity.Yield in discussion even when one is right.Choose always the hardest.
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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
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Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
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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.
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Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
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A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.
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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 mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
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The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.
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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.
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I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
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I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.
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Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.
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I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.
Mother Teresa
In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
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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.
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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.
Mother Teresa
One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.
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