Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.Collection: Love
I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.Collection: Life
What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.Collection: Block
When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.Collection: Love You
I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.Collection: Prayer
Never be so busy as not to think of others.Collection: Kindness
Helping hands are better than Praying LipsCollection: Hands
Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.Collection: Love
Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.Collection: Kindness
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.Collection: Spiritual
A family that prays together stays together. As we are united at this moment, let us join also the prayer of all and everyone. What you can do I cannot do. And what I can do you cannot do. But all of us together are doing something beautiful for God.Collection: Beautiful
The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in my life; in the mass we have Jesus in the appearance of bread. While in the slums we see Christ and touch him in the broken bodies, in the abandoned children.Collection: Spiritual
Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.Collection: Giving
It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.Collection: Faith
Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.Collection: Father
Then we have the silence of the eyes which will always help us to see God. Our eyes are like two windows through which Christ or the world comes to our hearts. Often we need great courage to keep them closed. How often we say, I wish I had not seen this thing, and yet we take so little trouble to overcome the desire to see everything.Collection: Heart
Why can't there be love that never gets tired?Collection: Tired
Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.Collection: Giving
Life's a song,sing itCollection: Song
When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for themCollection: Eye
Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.Collection: Jesus
If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.Collection: Faith
We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.Collection: Jesus
In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.Collection: Jesus
God speaks in the silence of the heart.Collection: Heart
If you're too busy to pray...you're too busyCollection: Praying
In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.Collection: God
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.Collection: Love
Jesus has said "Come, blessed of my Father, take the seat in the kingdom prepared for you, because I was hungry you gave me food, I was thirsty you have me drink, I was naked you clothed me, I was homeless you took me home and I was sick you visited me." And we are just doing that.Collection: Jesus
you [priests] are called 'another Christ.'Collection: Christ
Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.Collection: Helping
Every time I ask for visa, they (USA) give me visa for five years. I have never had any problem in getting a visa to any nation.Collection: Usa
Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.Collection: Prayer
I remember I picked up a person from the street who was nearly eaten up with maggots, and he said, I have lived like an animal, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.Collection: Angel
There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.Collection: America
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.Collection: Forgiveness
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.Collection: Success
Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.Collection: Mean
None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.Collection: Teamwork
Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.Collection: Love
The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.Collection: Prayer
There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.Collection: Pain
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.Collection: Inspirational
There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.Collection: Powerful
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.Collection: Happiness
On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .Collection: Love
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.Collection: Country
People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.Collection: People
How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.Collection: Jesus