Quotes from Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure; it just gives

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.

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.

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts; then it is real and pure.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand." Philemon

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.