Quotes from Mother Teresa
The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.
- Mother Teresa
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
- Mother Teresa
All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.
- Mother Teresa
Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.
- Mother Teresa
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.
- Mother Teresa
When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.
- Mother Teresa
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
- Mother Teresa
If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know who you are.
- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.
- Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa