Quotes by Mother Theresa

“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”
 
“Intense love does not measure; it just gives”

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

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

“True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile”

“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”

“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, kindness"


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

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

“Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.

“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.”

“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 trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because th”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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