Quotes By Mother Teresa

In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life.

We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share.

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Brothers, Fathers and Sisters - all of us in the Missionaries of Charity are doing the same. All of us have been created by God to love and to be loved. We are involved in this work. When you do that, there is joy, unity and love.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

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

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

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