Mother teresa quotes

When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.

The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.

Small things done with great love will change the world.

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

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

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold.

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

When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

You are greater than you know.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

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?

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

Just show up and things will happen.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

Live simply so others may simply live.

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

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

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

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

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

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.

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself.

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.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?

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.

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.

The beginning of peace is a smile

Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.

The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ: Jesus is my God, Jesus is my Spouse, Jesus is my Life, Jesus is my only Love, Jesus is my All in All; Jesus is my Everything.

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.

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.

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship

The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.

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.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving.

Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

We have only today. Let us begin

For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God's life in us, even in an unborn child.

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.

We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?

If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it

If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.

Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

Helping hands are better than Praying Lips

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.

There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World. But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.

God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

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

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

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.

I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.

Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

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

I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

Be faithful in the little things.

Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

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.

If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.

On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Speak tenderly; 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.

Do you really know the living Jesus - not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard the loving words He speaks to you?... The devil may try to use the hurts of life, and sometimes our own mistakes - to make you feel it is impossible that Jesus really loves you, is really cleaving to you. This is a danger for all of us. And so sad, because it is completely the opposite of what Jesus is really wanting, waiting to tell you. Not only that He loves you, but even more - He longs for you.

The greatest good is what we do for others.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence in our Constitution that says: 'We will allow the good God to make plans for the future - for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come and we have only today to make Him known, loved and served.' So we do not worry about the future.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.