Selected quotes · 31
№ 01
“Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
Mother TeresaHappiness
№ 02
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
Mother TeresaAction
№ 03
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
Mother TeresaLife
№ 04
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
Mother TeresaLove
№ 05
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
Mother TeresaLove
№ 06
“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 TeresaLove
№ 07
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”
Mother TeresaLove
№ 08
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Mother TeresaLove
№ 09
“Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
Mother TeresaHappiness
№ 10
“People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
Mother TeresaLove
№ 11
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
Mother TeresaAction
№ 12
“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.”
Mother TeresaFreedom
№ 13
“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 TeresaWisdom
№ 14
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
Mother TeresaWisdom
№ 15
“Peace begins with a smile.”
Mother TeresaAction
№ 16
“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.”
Mother TeresaFriendship
№ 17
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.”
Mother TeresaAction
№ 18
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”
Mother TeresaHappiness
№ 19
“Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.”
Mother TeresaLove
№ 20
“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.”
Mother TeresaFaith
№ 21
“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 TeresaCreativity
№ 22
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
Mother TeresaAction
№ 23
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
Mother TeresaLove
№ 24
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
Mother TeresaLove
№ 25
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
Mother TeresaWisdom
№ 26
“True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile.”
Mother TeresaAction
№ 27
“Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
Mother TeresaCourage
№ 28
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
Mother TeresaWisdom
№ 29
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
Mother TeresaFaith
№ 30
“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?”
Mother TeresaFreedom
№ 31
“Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.”
Mother TeresaLife