We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Keep your heart pure. A pure heart is necessary to see God in each other. If you see God in each other,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We pick up people dying full of worms from the street. We have picked up more than 40,000 of them. If I… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Then we have the silence of the eyes which will always help us to see God. Our eyes are like two windows… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in… — 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
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in… — 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
Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family. — 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
