Quotes by Nuns

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel you possess the certainty that... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.
Monica Baldwin
Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Corita Kent
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent
I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.
Mother Teresa
Remember the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough.
Macrina Wiederkehr
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
God why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh lead me to the Beyond within.
Macrina Wiederkehr
Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.
Mother Teresa
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Monica Baldwin
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.
Mother Teresa
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
People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.
Helen Prejean
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.
Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.
Corita Kent
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Corita Kent
So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves instead of letting them alter us.
Mother Maribel
I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
Mother Teresa
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
Mother Teresa
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
We fail to move beyond what is safe, we abandon our dreams in favor of what is sure rather than strive for what is best for us.
Joan D. Chittister
Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
Mother Teresa
privation is the cause of appetite
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
When you judge someone you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
If dual torment is to be my one condition,both of loving and being loved I would quit.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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.
Mother Teresa
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.
Corita Kent
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa
And fear nothing, dear soul, whoever you are; the greater the sinner, the greater his right to Your mercy, O Lord.
Maria Faustina Kowalska
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.
Mother Teresa
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Mother Teresa
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother Teresa
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?
Mother Teresa
If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.
Mother Teresa
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.
Mother Teresa
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.
Mother Teresa
I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.
Elizabeth of the Trinity
Union with God is the only heaven there is, and it begins here on earth.
Macrina Wiederkehr
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.
Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa