Quotes by Mother Teresa

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

If you cant feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldnt touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

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

Peace begins with a smile.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

“At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.”

“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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 Im supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now Im praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.”

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

“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.”