Quotes from Mother Teresa
Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared.
- Mother Teresa
God loves the world through us.
- Mother Teresa
Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility
- Mother Teresa
There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love
- Mother Teresa
In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.
- Mother Teresa
I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.
- Mother Teresa
The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.
- Mother Teresa
My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.
- Mother Teresa
True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love
- Mother Teresa
Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.
- Mother Teresa
This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.
- Mother Teresa
It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.
- Mother Teresa