“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
“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
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.”
―
Mother Teresa
“There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.”
―
Mother Teresa
“The fruit of Silence is Prayer
The fruit of Prayer is Faith
The fruit of Faith is Love
The fruit of Love is Service
The fruit of Service is Peace”
―
Mother Teresa
“If you judge people you have no time to love them.”
―
Mother Teresa
“We must become holy not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live His life fully in us.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
―
Mother Teresa
“We are not called to be successful, but faithful.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”
―
Mother Teresa
“To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
―
Mother Teresa
