"Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start"
Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun and missionary known for her humanitarian work, particularly in caring for the impoverished in India through her organization, the Missionaries of Charity.
- Born
- August 26, 1910
- Died
- September 5, 1997
- Quotes
- 878
- Rank
- #98
Quote collection
Mother Teresa quotes (page 17 of 44)
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"Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other."
"A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness."
"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money."
"Peace starts with a smile"
"Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical."
"When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again."
"The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family."
"If you give what you do not need, it is not giving."
"If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers."
"I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."
"We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are."
"We are at Jesus' disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work in the street, if he wants you to clean the toilets all day, that's all right, everything is all right. We must say, "I belong to you. You can do whatever you like." And this ..is our strength, and this is the joy of the Lord."
"What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few."
"Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus."
"I belong to Jesus. He must have the right to use me without consulting me."
"Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace."
"Peace begins with a smile."
"You know my God. My God is called love"
"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."