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Mother Teresa Quotes

Total quotes: 33
“Now I really rejoice when something does not go as I wish—because I see that He wants our trust—that is why in the loss let us praise God as if we have got everything. ”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
Tagged: Faith, Christianity, The Obstacle Is The Way, Catholicism
“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.”
— Mother Teresa, ‘Prayer changes us and we change things’
Tagged: Prayers, Praying, prayer changes us, Change For The Better, believing
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
— Mother Teresa, Ride the Wave: Journey From The Inside Out
Tagged: Love
“Don’t look for big things, just do small things with great love. The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
Tagged: Love, All The Small Things
“Why must we give ourselves fully to God? Because God has given Himself to us. If God who owes nothing to us is ready to impart to us no less than Himself, shall we answer with just a fraction of ourselves? To give ourselves fully to God is a means of receiving God Himself. I for God and God for me. I live for God and give up my own self, and in this way induce God to live for me. Therefore to possess God we must allow Him to possess our soul.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
Tagged: Religious Nihilism, God, Faith, Christianity, Giving Yourself to God
“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
— Mother Teresa, Instinct for Freedom: Finding Liberation through Living
Tagged: Love
“When I see someone sad: I always think, she is refusing something to Jesus.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
Tagged: jesus, Christianity, Faith, Being Said When You're A Child of A God
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”
— Mother Teresa, Homelessness
Tagged: Homelessness, Poverty of Love
“Love demands sacrifice. But if we love until it hurts, God will give us His peace and joy. Suffering in itself is nothing; but suffering shared with Christ’s Passion is a wonderful gift.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
“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.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes
Tagged: Hunger, Starvation, Good, Forgotten, Eat
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes - Mother Teresa - Catholic Life - Catholic Online
Tagged: kindness, Speak Words, Echoes, Goodness
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes
Tagged: Lonely, Feeling, terrible, Poverty
“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.”
— Mother Teresa, The Rotarian
Tagged: Money, Love, Poverty, Hunger
“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, Mother Teresa Quotes
Tagged: Love, Giving, Genuine, Tired, Peace
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes - Mother Teresa - Catholic Life - Catholic Online
Tagged: strength, Hope, Wisdom, Courage
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes - Mother Teresa - Catholic Life - Catholic Online
Tagged: Peace, Love, Belonging
“If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes
Tagged: Love, Lamp, Goodness
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
— Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living(Compass)
Tagged: smiling, Love, gifts
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes
Tagged: Smile, Happiness, Joy, Good
“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.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes
Tagged: Drop, Ocean, Goodness, Faith, Love
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
— Mother Teresa, Success from the Start: Business Participation for Massage Therapists
Tagged: pas, present, Future, live in the moment
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes
Tagged: Love, Pain, forgive, hurt
“In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes
Tagged: Great Things, Great Love, Small Acts Of Kindness
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes - Mother Teresa - Catholic Life - Catholic Online
Tagged: Spread Love, Happiness, Goodness
“Jesus wants me to tell you again…how much is the love He has for each one of you—beyond all what you can imagine…. Not only He loves you, even more—He longs for you. He misses you when you don’t come close. He thirsts for you. He loves you always, even when you don’t feel worthy….”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
Tagged: jesus, God loves you, Christianity, Faith, Catholicism, God Desires You
“In the silence of the heart God speaks.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
Tagged: Where Is God?, How To Hear The Voice Of God, Silence
“Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes - Mother Teresa - Catholic Life - Catholic Online
Tagged: Rush, enjoy the moment, Take For Granted, Peace
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes
Tagged: leader, Peace, Unite, Good
“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes
Tagged: Feed, Hunger, help
“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes - Mother Teresa - Catholic Life - Catholic Online
Tagged: Love, Distance Relationships, Home, Learning To Love
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
— Rhonda Byrne, The Power (The Secret)
Tagged: Love, Life Quotes, Attraction
“Give, but give until it hurts.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes
Tagged: kindness, Giving
“In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”
— Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
Tagged: prayer, God, Silence
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