“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in”
―
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
“God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.”
―
Mother Teresa
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt,
only more love.”
―
Mother Teresa
“He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.”
―
Mother Teresa
“By our life and deeds of love, we are making the Church fully present in the world today.”
―
Mother Teresa
“The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”
―
Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.”
―
Mother Teresa
“In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”
―
Mother Teresa
