To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed? — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, your heart so full of love and humility,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We don't need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy…We may not be able to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I was asked why I did not give a rod with which to fish, in the hands of the poor, rather than… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more:… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Have a great compassion for people. To be able to have a heart full of compassion, we need to pray. Especially be… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. — Mother Teresa Copy Share
Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share
I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share
We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE… — Mother Teresa Copy Share
Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand... — Mother Teresa Copy Share
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally;… — Mother Teresa Copy Share
Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical. — Mother Teresa Copy Share
They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one… — Mother Teresa Copy Share
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. — Mother Teresa Copy Share
