Quote: So many signatures for such a small heart. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love [Mother Teresa]
Quote: Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: If you judge people, you have no time to love them. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love [Mother Teresa]
Quote: Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: 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. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. I will be a saint means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: One filled with joy preaches without preaching. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge. [Mother Teresa]
Quote: Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God. [Mother Teresa]