Mother Teresa
If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubledCollection: Community
In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.Collection: Jesus
The fruit of Silence is Prayer.Collection: Prayer
I always say "if you are afraid of them (the unborn), give them to me. Please, don't kill them."Collection: Giving
Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.Collection: Holy Prophet
Anybody who helps the poor is delighted.Collection: Helping
Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.Collection: Pain
We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.Collection: Christ
I am busy with my work. My path is clear.Collection: Path
Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor.Collection: People
The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.Collection: Pro Life
If people spent one hour per week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be endedCollection: People
There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.Collection: Inspirational
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.Collection: Humility
Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Jesus
If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.Collection: Love
Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Real
If you pray more you will pray better.Collection: Praying
Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile.Collection: Holy
You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.Collection: Eye
It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.Collection: Selfish
God loves the world through us.Collection: Love
To love others as God loves you, that is the measure of successCollection: Love You
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.Collection: Rights
I can't help thousands, I can help only the one who stands before me.Collection: Helping
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.Collection: Mother
Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.Collection: Uplifting
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.Collection: Women
The most important medicine is tender love and care.Collection: Medicine
The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .Collection: Mother
Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care. Deepen your love for one another by praying for each other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have received in prayer and reading.Collection: Jesus
It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another- not in the school, not from the teacher, but from you. It is very important that you share with your children the joy of that smile. There will be misunderstandings; every family has its cross, its suffering. Always be the first to forgive with a smile. Be cheerful, be happy.Collection: Mother
There are no great acts, only small acts done with great loveCollection: Small Acts
Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.Collection: Lonely
Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.Collection: Loneliness
In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.Collection: Jesus
Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself.Collection: Kindness
When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love.Collection: Hurt
Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.Collection: Peace
The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but kills to solve her own problems. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.Collection: Mother
We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.Collection: Home
Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.Collection: Heart
Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.Collection: Miracle
Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.Collection: Mother
It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.Collection: Soulmate
You can't do God's work without suffering.Collection: Suffering
A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.Collection: Heart