Mother Teresa Quotes - Page 2

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

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.

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

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

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

God has not called me to be successful; He has called me to be faithful.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

God hasn't called us to be successful, just faithful.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.