I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“The fruit of faith is love,and the fruit of love is service...spread love everywhere u go..” — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else. — 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
Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I have never found a problem with people from different religions praying together. What I have found is that people are just… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ: Jesus is my God,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I love all religions. ... If people become better Hindus, better Muslims, better Buddhists by our acts of love, then there is… — 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
Faith is a gift of God. Without it there would be no life. And our work, to be fruitful, and to be all for God, and to be beautiful, has to be built of faith. Faith in Christ who has said, I was hungry, I was naked, I was sick, and I was homeless, and you ministered to me! On… — Mother Teresa Copy Share
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Your spirit is the duster of any spider web. Behind every finish line, there is a start one. Behind every success, there… — 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
I am busy with my work. My path is clear. I see somebody dying, I pick him up. I find somebody hungry,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is… — 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
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty… — 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
