Quotes from Mother Teresa
God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.
- Mother Teresa
I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
- Mother Teresa
I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
- Mother Teresa
By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.
- Mother Teresa
When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them
- Mother Teresa
Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.
- Mother Teresa
Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
- Mother Teresa
We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?
- Mother Teresa
But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.
- Mother Teresa
It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.
- Mother Teresa
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
- Mother Teresa
Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.
- Mother Teresa