Mother Teresa Quotes

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so; God is there.

I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn't expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.

With St. Ignatius47 you may add: My only wish and desire, the one thing I humbly crave to have is the grace to love God, to love Him alone. Beyond that I ask for nothing more.

Joy is a power, and the poor followed Jesus because power dwelled in Him, ‘went forth’ from Him, flowed from His eyes, His hands, His body, totally given, present, to God, to people.

Everything is for Jesus, so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult.

Whoever gives with joy gives more.

They were hungry for the word of God. Here too in the whole world there is a hunger for God, among the young especially. And it is there that we must find Jesus and satisfy that hunger.22

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.

To work without love is slavery.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that he didn't trust me so much.

Love begins at home, and every Co-worker* should try to make sure that deep family love abides in his or her home. Only when love abides at home can we share it with our next-door neighbor. Then it will show forth and you will be able to say to them, “Yes, love is here.” And then you will be able to share it with everyone around you.

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.

Love until it hurts. . . .What I do, you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we call all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

ordinary things with extraordinary love,