Quotes By Mother Teresa

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.

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

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves.

The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.

God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.

I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus.

I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.

We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.