The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We are at Jesus' disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven -… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to… — 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
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it… — 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
As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no… — 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
Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want… — 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
