Quotes from Mother Teresa

Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.

Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.

The most important medicine is tender love and care.

One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Where there is love, there is joy.

If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?

Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved

We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else

There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy.

The family that prays together stays together, and if they stay together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And works of love are always works of peace.

To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

If you want to have world peace, go to your house and love your family.

Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared.

God loves the world through us.

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love

In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.

I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.

The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.

My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.

True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love

Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.

This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.

It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.