"Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are."
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 25 of 44)
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"Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love"
"We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life. In it we are filled with the energy of God himself that makes us do all things with joy."
"To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven."
"Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child."
"By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems."
"The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them"
"I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the streets and I find the same Jesus hidden in the dying destitute, the AIDS patients, the lepers, the abandoned children, the hungry, and the homeless. It's the same Jesus."
"The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give."
"There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you."
"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?"
"Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much."
"Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy."
"You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution."
"Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus."
"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it."
"I love all religions, but I am in love with my own."
"Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life."
"He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by."
"The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign."