Quotes from Mother Teresa

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

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

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

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

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.

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

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

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand." Philemon

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.

I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Holiness is doing Godís will with a smile.

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

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

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

Peace begins with a smile. Only God knows our true needs.