Quotes from Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Let us do something beautiful for God.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

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.