Quotes from Mother Teresa

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.

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

Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, "How many good things have you done in your life?" Rather he will ask, "How much love did you put into what you did?"

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.