Quotes from Mother Teresa

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

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.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

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

Today the greatest means, the greatest destroyer of peace, is abortion…. Because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you kill me?

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.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

God doesn't require is to succeed; he only require that you try.

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

God loves the world through us.

Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.

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

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ...You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across.

I always thought the bible would be better if there were light sabers in it. When I told this to God he banished me to Calcutta.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.