Quotes from Mother Teresa

If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?

People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!

Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.

I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment.

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

Behold , I have graven you upon the palm of my hand, that is what Jesus came on earth to do: to proclaim, to give us the Good News that God loves us, that we are precious to Him.

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.

Stay very close to Our Lady. If you do this, you can do great things for God and the good of people.

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

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

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted.

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.

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

We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope always hope.

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