Mother Teresa Quotes

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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.

Mother Teresa
When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.

Mother Teresa
Violence of the tongue is very real — sharper than any knife...

Mother Teresa
We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the joy and the energy to do what they are doing?' The Eucharist involves more than just receiving; it also involves satisfying the hunger of Christ. He says, 'Come to Me.' He is hungry for souls.

Mother Teresa
We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

Mother Teresa
If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

Mother Teresa
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ to me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.

Mother Teresa
From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.

Mother Teresa
Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?

Mother Teresa
The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

Mother Teresa
The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved...

Mother Teresa
God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.

Mother Teresa
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Mother Teresa
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.

Mother Teresa
Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses

Mother Teresa
It is easy to love those who live far away. It is not always easy to love those who live right next to us.

Mother Teresa
By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion.

Mother Teresa
The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

Mother Teresa
Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit, in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set.

Mother Teresa
There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

Mother Teresa
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

Mother Teresa
Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

Mother Teresa
I am so pleased with all the good work you are doing for world peace and for people in so many countries. May we continue to work together and to share together all for the glory of God and for the good of man.

Mother Teresa
The fruit of silence is prayer; the fruit of prayer is faith; the fruit of faith is love; the fruit of love is service; the fruit of service is peace.

Mother Teresa