Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. Mother Teresa   Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa   The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. Mother Teresa   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. Mother Teresa   The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa   The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.  Mother Teresa   There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. Mother Teresa    There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. Mother Teresa   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. Mother Teresa   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, ...

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. Mother Teresa   Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. Mother Teresa   Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa   Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action. Mother Teresa   Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home. Mother Teresa   Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Mother Teresa   Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. Mother Teresa   One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. Mother Teresa   Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. Mother Teresa   Peace begins with a smile. Mother Teresa   Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa   The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. Mother Teresa   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. Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa   Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Mother Teresa   Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. Mother Teresa   Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. Mother Teresa   I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa   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. Mother Teresa   I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? Mother Teresa   If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa   If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa   If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa   Intense love does not measure, it just gives. Mother Teresa   Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa   Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. 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 ...

“Love to be real, it must cost,it must hurt,it must empty us of self.” Mother Teresa   “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” Mother Teresa   “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” Mother Teresa   “I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.” Mother Teresa   “If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.” Mother Teresa   “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” Mother Teresa   “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.” Mother Teresa   “The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases 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. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty   it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.” Mother Teresa   “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” Mother Teresa   “A life not lived for others is not a life.” Mother Teresa   “Prayer ...

“I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”   “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”   “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.”   “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”   “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I 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?”   “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”     “Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” “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.”   “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness ...

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

 On Life… To begin, let us have a tiny glimpse of how Mother Teresa thought about life… In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily. Loneliness is the most terrible poverty. Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not, ...