Quotes by Mother Teresa

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

“When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.”

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I dont 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?”

“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.”

“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”

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

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love”

“Be happy. Its one way of being wise.”

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

“I never will understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.”

“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”

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?

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

Its not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. Theres a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

Im a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

Work without love is slavery.

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

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