Quotes from Mother Teresa

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

Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration.

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.

Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

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

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.

Don't aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in, Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier and it will come naturally.

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?

God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.

By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.

When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them

If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.

Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.

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.

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?

But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

Life is luck, make it.

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.