Mother Teresa
Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.Collection: Love
In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.Collection: Inspirational
Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.Collection: Love
Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.Collection: Want
To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving.Collection: Love
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.Collection: Love
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.Collection: Rights
God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us -- you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His.Collection: Falling In Love
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.Collection: Giving
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.Collection: Women
Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.Collection: Promise
Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.Collection: Pain
Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not loveCollection: Philosophical
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.Collection: Love
It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.Collection: Christmas
You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.Collection: Eye
Any work of love brings a person face to face with God.Collection: God
The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'Collection: Heaven
Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.Collection: Peace
The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.Collection: Love
Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.Collection: Life Is
Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.Collection: Love
The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.Collection: Giving
In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.Collection: Order
You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Jesus
People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.Collection: People
Everything that is not given is lost.Collection: Lost Everything
America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.Collection: Mother
I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment.Collection: Jesus
To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.Collection: Beautiful
All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.Collection: Jesus
Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possessCollection: Giving Up
I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.Collection: Responsibility
Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.Collection: Giving
A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her.Collection: Jesus
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.Collection: Jesus
Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.Collection: Love
Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he cannot command the impossible. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice by an intense inner life. There is no limit because God is love, love is God, God's love is infinite. But part is to love and to give until it hurts. That's why it is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the action.Collection: Hurt
Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.Collection: Spiritual
Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.Collection: Prayer
Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.Collection: Sacrifice
A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.Collection: Heart
Give people not only your care, but also your heart.Collection: Attitude
Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.Collection: Compassion
By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.Collection: Mother
If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.Collection: Eye
If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.Collection: Cutting