Mother Teresa Quotes

To smile at God.

Its not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts.
- Mother Theresa

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples

Not handouts, but rather hands held.

Let Him empty and transform you ;and afterwards fill the chalice of your hearts to the brim, that you in your turn, may give of your abundance. Seek Him. Knowledge will make you strong as death. Love Him trustfully without looking back, without fear. Believe that Jesus and Jesus alone is life. Serve Jesus, casting aside and forgetting all that troubles or worries you, make loved the love that is not loved.

We all have the duty to serve God where we are called to do so. I feel called to serve individuals, to love each human being. My calling is not to judge the institutions. I am not qualified to condemn anyone. I never think in terms of a crowd, but of individual persons. If I thought in terms of crowds, I would never begin in my work. I believe in the personal touch of one. If others are convinced that God wants them to change social structures, that is a matter for them to take up with God.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers

If we are humble, nothing will change us, neither praise, nor discouragement.

Anyone is capable of going to Heaven. Heaven is our home. People ask me about death and whether I look forward to it and I answer, 'Of course', because I am going home. Dying is not the end, it is just the beginning. Death is a continuation of life. This is the meaning of eternal life; it is where our soul goes to God, to be in the presence of God, to see God, to speak to God, to continue loving Him with greater love because in Heaven we shall be able to love Him with our whole heart and our soul because we only surrender our body in death - our heart and our soul live forever. When we die we are going to be with God, and all those we have known who have gone before us: our family and our friends will be there waiting for us. Heaven must be a beautiful place.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

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

When we come face to face with God, we are going to be judged on how much we loved.

Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God's work with a smile.

A way of satisfying our brethrens' hunger is to share with them whatever we have - to share with them until we ourselves feel what they feel.

She encouraged others to smile in suffering as she herself did.