Mother Teresa Quotes

Love demands sacrifice. But if we love until it hurts, God will give us His peace and joy…. Suffering in itself is nothing; but suffering shared with Christ’s Passion is a wonderful gift.

True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love.

Persuaded of our nothingness and with the blessing of obedience we attempt all things, doubting nothing, for with God all things are possible. We will allow the good God to make plans for the future, for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come, and we have only today to make him known loved, and served. Grateful for the thousands of opportunities Jesus gives us to bring hope into a multitude of lives by our concern for the individual sufferer, we will help our troubled world at the brink of despair to discover a new reason to live or to die with a smile of contentment on its lips.

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.

I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt,
only more love.

If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.

Why can't there be love that never gets tired?

The first step to becoming is to will it

I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

If a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me - there is nothing between.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway.

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

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

If now we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten how to see God in one another.

Give, but give until it hurts.