“I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt,
only more love.”
―
Mother Teresa
“every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing”
―
Mother Teresa
“The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.”
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Mother Teresa
“The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.”
―
Mother Teresa
“There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.”
―
Mother Teresa
“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”
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Mother Teresa
“Persuaded of our nothingness and with the blessing of obedience we attempt all things, doubting nothing, for with God all things are possible. We will allow the good God to make plans for the future, for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come, and we have only today to make him known loved, and served. Grateful for the thousands of opportunities Jesus gives us to bring hope into a multitude of lives by our concern for the individual sufferer, we will help our troubled world at the brink of despair to discover a new reason to live or to die with a smile of contentment on its lips.”
―
Mother Teresa
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
―
Mother Teresa
“It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.”
―
Mother Teresa
“The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”
―
Mother Teresa
“We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?”
―
Mother Teresa
