“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
―
Mother Teresa
“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
“And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love...”
―
Mother Teresa
“When you don't have anything, then you have everything.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Words that do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
―
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 first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.”
―
Mother Teresa
“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
―
Mother Teresa
