Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In our home (for the dying at Kali Ghat) in Calcutta, there is great peace, unity and love. Many Hindu families bring… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“He has told us that He is the hungry one. He is the naked one. He is the thirsty one. He is… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand... — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
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 Image
People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
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 Image