Quotes by Mother Teresa

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.

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.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.

You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

It is our emptiness and lowliness that God needs and not our plenitude. These are a few of the ways we can practice humility:Speak as little as possible of oneself.Mind ones own business.Avoid curiosity.Do not want to manage other peoples affairs.Accept contradiction and correction cheerfully.Pass over the mistakes of others.Accept blame when innocent.Yield to the will of others.Accept insults and injuries.Accept being slighted, forgotten, and disliked.Be kind and gentle even under provocation.Do not seek to be specially loved and admired.Never stand on ones dignity.Yield in discussion even when one is right.Choose always the hardest.

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

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

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.We will be judged by I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with Gods own love and concern.