Quotes from Mother Teresa

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

Christopher Hitchens

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.

Abortion is profoundly anti-women.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?

If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.

Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.

Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

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

Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.

The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything.

I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus.

Any work of love brings a person face to face with God.