Mother Teresa
We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.Collection: Humility
Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.Collection: Love
Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.Collection: Dance
Like her [Mary], let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace when, at the Annunciation, she received Jesus. Like her. we too become full of grace every time we receive Holy Communion. It is the same Jesus whom she received and whom we receive at Mass. As soon as she received Him. she went with haste to give Him to John. For us also. As soon as we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, let us go in haste to give Him to our sisters, to our poor, to the sick, to the dying, to the lepers, to the unwanted, and the unloved. By this we make Jesus present in the world today.Collection: Jesus
Life isn't about the cherished moments it is also about the hard ones. Just knowing each day that you will arise with the bright shining sun in your eyes. And end with the cool breeze upon your face as you slowly reflect the day that passed by.Collection: Eye
Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.Collection: Jesus
Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.Collection: Love
It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbour. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live.Collection: Mother
I have said often, and I am sure of it, that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is abortion. If a mother can kill her own child, what is there to stop you and me from killing each other? The only one who has the right to take life is the The One who has created it.Collection: Mother
Together we can do great things.Collection: Together We Can
Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved... To love a person without any conditions, without any expectations. Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace. To love, it is necessary to give. To give, it is necessary to be free from selfishness.Collection: Giving
To choose always the hardest.Collection: Hardest
And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?Collection: Mother
Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.Collection: Heart
At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.Collection: Done
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.Collection: Pride
When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.Collection: Love
We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.Collection: Successful
The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.Collection: Christmas
To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.Collection: Infinite
In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the end those incredulous to what you put up with to help, no longer matter. It's not between you and those snobs, but with whom you have given your hand to lift, and of course to God who Is watching and noting it in your book.Collection: Book
Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.Collection: Catholic
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.Collection: Love
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.Collection: Forgiveness
Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.Collection: Birthday
Helping hands are better than Praying Lips.Collection: Helping
Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch...Collection: Real
If I’d never have picked up the first person, I’d never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.Collection: Firsts
Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that’s real hunger.Collection: Real
The poor give us much more than we give them. They’re such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don’t have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.Collection: Strong