Quotes by Mother Teresa

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

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

Peace begins with a smile..

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

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

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

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

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.

The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love.

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

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

Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.

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

Be happy in the moment, thats enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

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

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

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?

I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesnt expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.