Mother Teresa Quotes: 41

• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

• Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

• Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

• Peace begins with a smile..

• I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

• The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

• If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

• Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

• Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

• Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

• Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

• The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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

• Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

• It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

• Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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

• The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is Peace

• Work without love is slavery.

• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

• I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

  A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations

• Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

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

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

• Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

• Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

• Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

• Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

• I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

• Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

• I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

• We are all pencils in the hand of God.

• In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

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

• There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

• Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

  Heart of Joy

• I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

• I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.