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
One thing I ask you to do, you people who have the pen in your hand, allow God to use you so… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence. — 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
For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is no great difference in the reality of one country or another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They… — 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
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
Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons. — 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
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 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
There is no great difference in reality between one country and another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not… — 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
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
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
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
