Mother Teresa Quotes

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

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.

Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

Give, but give until it hurts.

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East — especially in India — I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening wihtout a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving — it is not in the result of loving.

These words, taken from the book A Simple Path, are the words of one of the Missionaries of Charity Sisters, not of Mother Teresa.

When you don't have anything, then you have everything.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

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

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

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

Life is a game, play it.

Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.