“See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.”
―
Mother Teresa
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
―
Mother Teresa
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”
―
Mother Teresa
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody”
―
Mother Teresa
“And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even His life to love us. So, the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love, that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts.”
―
Mother Teresa
“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?”
―
Mother Teresa
“I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.”
―
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
“God hasn't called us to be successful, just faithful.”
―
Mother Teresa
“When you don't have anything, then you have everything.”
―
Mother Teresa
“The biggest diease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody.”
―
Mother Teresa
