Mother Teresa Quotes

When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books. - View Quote Details on When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at…
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. - View Quote Details on It is a poverty to decide that a child must…
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must. - View Quote Details on Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to…
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things. - View Quote Details on We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just…
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn’t matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. - View Quote Details on Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at…
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - View Quote Details on Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to…
Be kind to each other in your homes. Be kind to those who surround you. I prefer that you make mistakes in kindness rather than that you work miracles in unkindness. Often just for one word, one look, one quick action, and darkness fills the heart of the one we love. - View Quote Details on Be kind to each other in your homes. Be kind…
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.We have only today. Let us begin. - View Quote Details on Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.We have only…
Peace begins with a smile. - View Quote Details on Peace begins with a smile.
I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I’ll be there. - View Quote Details on I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war…
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. - View Quote Details on The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove…
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless…. - View Quote Details on Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but…
If abortion is not wrong, nothing is wrong. - View Quote Details on If abortion is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? - View Quote Details on But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today…
The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved they are Jesus in disguise. - View Quote Details on The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved…
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, “How many good things have you done in your life?,” rather He will ask, “How much love did you put into what you did? - View Quote Details on I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like,…
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. - View Quote Details on Love is a fruit in season at all times, and…
Alternately: We the willing, led by the unknowing, have done so much, with so little, for so long, that we are now qualified to make anything out of nothing. - View Quote Details on Alternately: We the willing, led by the unknowing, have done…
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. - View Quote Details on There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this…
If we have no peace, it is because we forget we belong to each other. - View Quote Details on If we have no peace, it is because we forget…
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - View Quote Details on If you judge people, you have no time to love…
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper’s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience? - View Quote Details on I see God in every human being. When I wash…
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. - View Quote Details on I have found the paradox that if I love until…
The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love. - View Quote Details on The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on…
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis,
it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway. - View Quote Details on People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway…
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. - View Quote Details on It is not how much we do, but how much…
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing. - View Quote Details on We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the…