Top 882 Quotes & Sayings by Mother Teresa - Page 3

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

The greatest good is what we do for others.

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.

There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.

When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

My secret is simple -- I pray.

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.

It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another- not in the school, not from the teacher, but from you. It is very important that you share with your children the joy of that smile. There will be misunderstandings; every family has its cross, its suffering. Always be the first to forgive with a smile. Be cheerful, be happy.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.

Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Live simply so others may simply live.

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence in our Constitution that says: 'We will allow the good God to make plans for the future - for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come and we have only today to make Him known, loved and served.' So we do not worry about the future.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.

Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.