Mother Teresa
These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.Collection: Mother
We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.Collection: Sick
The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.Collection: Jesus
Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy!Collection: Joy
Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a wordCollection: Silence
Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.Collection: Poverty
Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.Collection: Jesus
Peace starts with a smileCollection: Smile
The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.Collection: Prayer
God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.Collection: Beautiful
You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.Collection: Way
God made the world for the delight of human beings.Collection: Delight
The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is PeaceCollection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Hard Work
If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.Collection: Humble
I am not called to be successful, I am called to be faithful.Collection: Success
February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady. "What is taking place in America," she said, "is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another."Collection: Mother
People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.Collection: People
I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'Collection: Love You
When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Love
Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim's body to bury it, Hindus come and take away the dead to be cremated and Christians come and bury their dead.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Love
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know themCollection: People
Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.Collection: Children
All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heartCollection: Wisdom
We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love. When they are brought to our home, they feel they are in their own homes, with their own families. Now, I am trying to open a house for AIDS victims here (in Delhi). The people are dying because of it.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Mother
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.Collection: Prayer
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.Collection: Opportunity
Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be lovedCollection: Has Beens
Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me.Collection: Children
Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God.Collection: Sorry
I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.Collection: Real
We are fighting abortion through adoption.Collection: Fighting
What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.Collection: Mother
Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.Collection: Love You
Stay very close to Our Lady. If you do this, you can do great things for God and the good of people.Collection: People
You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.Collection: Simple
Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.Collection: Jesus
All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.Collection: Instruments
Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.Collection: Heart
Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.Collection: Love Is
We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved youCollection: Jesus
Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.Collection: Real
My key to heaven is that I loved Jesus in the night.Collection: Jesus
Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.Collection: Life
Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.Collection: Jesus
We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.Collection: Want