Quotes from Mother Teresa

Work without love is slavery.

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.

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

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

We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.

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

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.

Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile.

You can and you must expect suffering.

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

You can't do God's work without suffering.

Jesus has very clearly said in the gospel. "Whatever you do, do to the least of my brethren." Clear? That was the work of Jesus.

Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, do his work through your hands, for you will be all-powerful with him to strengthen you.

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.

All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.

Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.

I am busy with my work. My path is clear.

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