Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved...… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you… — 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
I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their… — 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
Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any… — 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
We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean,… — 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
Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I have said often, and I am sure of it, that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is abortion.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I always say "if you are afraid of them (the unborn), give them to me. Please, don't kill them." — 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
