Quotes from Mother Teresa

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship

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

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

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

God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts; then it is real and pure.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary What we need is Love without getting tired.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending out a love letter to the world.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

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

Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

We can cure physical diesases 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

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.