Mother Teresa quotes

Peace begins with a smile.

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

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.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

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.

Peace begins with a smile.

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

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

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.

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

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

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

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.

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

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

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

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.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

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

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

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

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

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

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.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

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