Mother Teresa
I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it. I don't understand.Collection: Children
The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.Collection: Prayer
If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?Collection: Jesus
To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.Collection: Beautiful
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.Collection: Hurt
Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.Collection: Sacrifice
We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.Collection: Flower
The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you.Collection: Jesus
Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.Collection: Mother
The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.Collection: Home
God never sends us more than we can handle.Collection: Inspirational
Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.Collection: Holiness
If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.Collection: Love
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.Collection: Love
If I look at the mass I will never act.Collection: Apathy
In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.Collection: Prayer
Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.Collection: Love
It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.Collection: Christmas
God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.Collection: Numbers
Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.Collection: Gun
The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.Collection: Heart
We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.Collection: Purpose
We will never know how much just a simple smile will do.Collection: Simple
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.Collection: Inspirational
Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.Collection: Love
There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.Collection: Love
Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?Collection: Broken Heart
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.Collection: People
Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.Collection: Love Is
We are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of peace).Collection: Jail
We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.Collection: Giving
I was asked why I did not give a rod with which to fish, in the hands of the poor, rather than give the fish itself as this makes them remain poor. So I told them: The people whom we pick up are not able to stand with a rod. So today I will give them fish and when they are able to stand, then I shall send them to you and you can give them the rod. That is your job. Let me do my work today.Collection: Jobs
The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.Collection: Easter
Real prayer is union with God.Collection: Prayer
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.Collection: Forgiveness
From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.Collection: Grace
In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year. But we never refuse anybody. Everybody is most welcome.Collection: Baby
We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.Collection: Jesus
Faith keeps the person who keeps the faith.Collection: Keep The Faith
How can I act in an impersonal manner? When a man dies in the street for want of food, how can I ignore him? When I find a starving or naked man in the street, I cannot walk past him. I think no human being can do that.Collection: Men
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
Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.Collection: Home
We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.Collection: Mean
My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.Collection: Simple
Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.Collection: Giving
If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too.Collection: Moon
Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.Collection: Pain
Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.Collection: Knowing
Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life.Collection: Faith