Quotes By Mother Teresa

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.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

Good works are links that form a chain of love.