Quotes from Mother Teresa

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus.

I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money.

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

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

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.

A Mother is the heart of the home

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?

Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Spread your love everywhere you go.

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.