Quotes from Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God-the rest will be given.

Life is a promise fulfill it.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Peace begins with a smile.

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.

Please choose the way of peace…In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

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.

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.

There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

There should be less talk a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

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.

What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.