Mother Teresa Quotes

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

The assurance that “Christ’s love is stronger than all that we have or are” had helped her not to succumb to the interior darkness and the pain of nothingness. It was in this state, when she felt that in her heart there was “no faith — no love — no trust”74 that she had formulated the prayer “Jesus in my heart, I believe in your faithful love for me. I love you.” Later she would alter the prayer by replacing “faithful” with “tender.

As for myself — there is but one desire — to love God as He has never been loved — with deep personal love.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop were not there, I think the ocean would be less by that missing drop.

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

Love Jesus — live with Jesus that you may live for Jesus.

Suffering by itself has no meaning...But suffering shared with the suffering of Christ has a tremendous meaning...Suffering is really the most beautiful way of growing in holiness to be like Jesus.

Por vezes sentimos que aquilo que fazemos não é senão uma gota de água no oceano. Mas o oceano seria menor se lhe faltasse uma gota.

prayer is necessary to reach that goal. Because it is the breath of life to our soul, holiness is impossible without it.

Keep the joy of loving God in your heart today and share this joy with all you meet, especially your family.

If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, just more love

I believe that people today think the poor are not humans like them. They look down on them. But if they had a deep respect for the poor, I am sure it would be easy for them to come closer to them, and to see that they have as much right to the things of life and to love as anybody has. In these times of development, everybody is in a hurry and rushing about, and on the way there are people falling down, people who do not have the strength to run. It is these that we want to help and take care of.

No hardship or suffering, her own or that of her poor, could undermine Mother Teresa’s conviction that God IS love, that all He does or permits is ultimately for some greater good and, therefore, an expression of His immense and unconditional love.

Jamais comparecerei a um comício contra a guerra. Se você tiver um comício pela paz, pode me convidar.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.