Mother Teresa Quotes

Keep the joy of loving God
in your heart
and share this joy
with all you meet
especially your family.
Be holy — let us pray.

We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

I must become less and less. Jesus must become more and more.

If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service and the fruit of service is peace.

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?

If we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, rather, to use violence to get what they want.

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing.

Why must we give ourselves fully to God? Because God has given himself to us. If God who owes nothing to us is ready to impart no less than himself, shall we answer with just a fraction of ourselves? To give ourselves fully to God is a means of receiving God himself.

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.