Mother Teresa Quotes

One filled with the joy preaches without preaching.

I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

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.

Най-хубавият ден - днешния.
Най-голямата спънка - страхът.
Най-лесното нещо - да се заблудиш.
Най-голямата заблуда - че друг е виновен за неуспеха ти.
Най-трудното - да постигнеш мечтите си.
Най-непостижимото - да угодиш на всички.
Най-глупавото нещо - оправданието.
Най-голямата грешка - да паднеш духом.
Най-голямото поражение - да се предадеш без бой.
Коренът на всички злини - егоизмът.
Най-хубавото развлечение - работата.
Най-полезното нещо - опитът.
Най-безполезното нещо - мързелът.
Най-лошото поражение - отчаянието.
Най-необходимото - домашното огнище.
Най-верните приятели - родителите.
Най-големите дарители - учителите.
Най-добрите учители – децата.
Най-големият ти враг - ти самият.
Най-опасният човек - лицемерът.
Най-лошият съветник - гневът.
Най-коварните чувства - омразата и завистта.
Най-голямото щастие – да си полезен на другите.
Най-големият успех - да изкорениш недостатъците си.
Най-неприятния недостатък – лошото настроение.
От какво не можеш да избягаш - от проблемите.
Най-първата необходимост - общуването.
Най-краткият път - правилният.
Най-дългият път - да се водиш по чужд акъл.
Най-красивият подарък – прошката .
Най-добрата защита – усмивката.
Най-приятното усещане - вътрешният мир.
Най-голямото удоволствие - изпълненият дълг.
Най-голямото разочарование - предателството.
Най-обезличаващото - подражанието.
Никой не може да ти отнеме: образованието, опита и спомените.
Най-важното нещо, което носиш със себе си - умът.
Най-доброто лекарство – оптимизмът.
Най-мощната сила на света – вярата.
Най-стимулуращият дар – надеждата.
Единствената реалност – любовта.

It is our emptiness and lowliness that God needs and not our plenitude. These are a few of the ways we can practice humility:
Speak as little as possible of oneself.
Mind one's own business.
Avoid curiosity.
Do not want to manage other people's affairs.
Accept contradiction and correction cheerfully.
Pass over the mistakes of others.
Accept blame when innocent.
Yield to the will of others.
Accept insults and injuries.
Accept being slighted, forgotten, and disliked.
Be kind and gentle even under provocation.
Do not seek to be specially loved and admired.
Never stand on one's dignity.
Yield in discussion even when one is right.
Choose always the hardest.

God has not called me to be successful; He has called me to be faithful.

People are hungry for God. People are hungry for love. Are you aware of that? Do you know that? Do you see that? Do you have eyes to see? Quite often we look but we don’t see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

God has not created poverty; it is we who have created it. Before God, all of us are poor . — MOTHER TERESA Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven . — JESUS, MATTHEW 5:3 RSV Poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be somebody for someone else. This is where we make our mistake and shove people aside. Not only have we denied the poor a piece of bread, but by thinking that they have no worth and leaving them abandoned in the streets, we have denied them the human dignity that is rightfully theirs as children of God.

I've never seen the poor people being so familiar with their head of state as they were with her. It was a beautiful lesson for me.

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.

To make possible true inner silence, practice:

Silence of the eyes, by seeking always the beauty and goodness of God everywhere, and closing them to the faults of others and to all that is sinful and disturbing to the soul.

Silence of the ears, by listening always to the voice of God and to the cry of the poor and the needy, and closing them to all other voices that come from fallen human nature, such as gossip, tale bearing, and uncharitable words.

Silence of the tongue, by praising God and speaking the life-giving Word of God that is the truth, that enlightens and inspires, brings peace, hope, and joy; and by refraining from self-defense and every word that causes darkness, turmoil, pain, and death.

Silence of the mind, by opening it to the truth and knowledge of God in prayer and contemplation, like Mary who pondered the marvels of the Lord in her heart, and by closing it to all untruths, distractions, destructive thoughts, rash judgments, false suspicions of others, vengeful thoughts, and desires.

Silence of the heart, by loving God with our heart, soul, mind, and strength; loving one another as God loves; and avoiding all selfishness, hatred, envy, jealousy, and greed.

I shall keep the silence of my heart with greater care, so that in the silence of my heart I hear His words of comfort, and from the fullness of my heart I comfort Jesus in the distressing disguise of the poor. For in the silence and purity of the heart God speaks.

Prayer: Lord, grant that I may
seek rather to comfort than to be
comforted; to understand rather
than be understood; to love rather
than be loved, for it is by forgetting
self that one finds. It is by forgiving
that one is forgiven. It is by dying
that one awakens to eternal life.
Amen.

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

"How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta