Mother Teresa

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

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

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

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has little to do with it.

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.

Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

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.

Be happy in the moment thats enough. Each moment is all we need not more.

We are not here to be successful we are here to be FAITHFUL.

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

Love cannot remain by itself it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls everywhere and peace on earth. We cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the difference it will make in our world.

If you are kind people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.

All works of love are works of peace.

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

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.

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

Look at the cross and you will know what one soul means to Jesus.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting with a smile what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

People are not hungry just for bread they are hungry for love.

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

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

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

I alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

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

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

If you want to have world peace, go to your house and love your family.

Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

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

A Mother is the heart of the home.

Small things done with great love will change the world.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

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.

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.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

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.

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

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

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

Intense love does not measure it just gives.

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

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.

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.

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

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

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

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

If you do good people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

Even the rich are hungry for love for being cared for for being wanted for having someone to call their own.

Love to be real must cost it must hurt it must empty us of self.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace we need love and compassion.

Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.

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

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and He always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

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

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

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.

Live simply, so that others may simply live.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

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

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Holy living consists in doing Gods work with a smile.

Peace begins with a 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.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

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.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

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 thats why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Give that child to me. I want it. I will care for it. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.

The right to life does not depend and must not be contingent on the pleasure of anyone else not even a parent or sovereign.

You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ proof of the greatest love.