And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill… — 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
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
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I… — 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
We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about… — 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
God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I am sure that all people know deep down inside that the little child in the mother's womb is a human being… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Each time anyone comes in contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God… — 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
People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If people spent one hour per week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway. — 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
Holiness is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people. It is meant for you and for… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And… — 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