Quotes By Mother Teresa

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Look at the cross and you will know what one soul means to Jesus.

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

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

We will never know how much just a simple smile will do.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.

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

A life not lived for others is not a life.

There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ: Jesus is my God, Jesus is my Spouse,Jesus is my Life, Jesus is my only Love, Jesus is my All in All; Jesus is my Everything.

Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time, and seeing his hand in every happening-that is contemplation in the heart of the world.

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

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.