“It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I hope that what you give me comes not from your surplus but it is the fruit of a sacrifice made for the love of God. You must give what costs you, go without something you like, then you will truly be brothers to the poor who are deprived of even the things they need.”
―
Mother Teresa
“The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.”
―
Mother Teresa
“When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus. ”
―
Mother Teresa
“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”
―
Mother Teresa
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.”
―
Mother Teresa
“He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.”
―
Mother Teresa
“If a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me - there is nothing between.”
―
Mother Teresa
“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully. Do not let a chance pass you by. It is so easy to be proud, harsh, moody and selfish, but we have been created for greater things. Why stoop down to things that will spoil the beauty of our hearts?”
―
Mother Teresa
“The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So we have to go through the fire.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Words that do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
―
Mother Teresa
“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
―
Mother Teresa
