“I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt,
only more love.”
―
Mother Teresa
“The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace”
―
Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.”
―
Mother Teresa
“If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”
―
Mother Teresa
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody”
―
Mother Teresa
“The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God's work with a smile.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor . . . Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”
―
Mother Teresa
“In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.”
―
Mother Teresa
“But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
―
Mother Teresa
