The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence. — 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
I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady. "What is taking place in America,"… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My prayer for you is that you may grow in the likeness of Christ, being real carriers of God's love and that… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another- not in the school, not… — 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
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
