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Mother Teresa Quotes - Page 33

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The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.

The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.

Jesus, Our Love, Action

If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?

Thinking, Would Be, Weapons

In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.

Grace, Growth, Divine

Mother Teresa (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories, and Prayers”, p.113, New World Library

If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept.

Catholic, Mind, Faces

Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.

Joy, Suffering, Together

O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!

Light, Giving, Give Me Strength

Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.27, Random House

But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

Mother, Children, Pro Life

Speech at National Prayer Breakfast Washington, D.C., February 03, 1994.

Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

Spiritual, Heart, Generosity

Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.95, New World Library

Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?

Loyalty, Jesus, Kindness

Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.86, New World Library

Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.

Gratitude, Prayer, Heart

"My Life for the Poor". Book by Mother Teresa, 1985.

Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

Empty

Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.95, New World Library

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

Spring, Heart, Giving

Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.33, New World Library

Jesus wants me to tell you again...how much is the love He has for each one of you-beyond all what you can imagine...Not only He loves you, even more - He longs for you. He misses you when you don't come close. He thirsts for you. He loves you always, even when you don't feel worthy.

Jesus, Love You, Missing

Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.42, Random House

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

Self, Desire, Self Centered

There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful together

Beautiful, Together, Can Not

If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.

Lonely, Children, Men

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

Worth Living

I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.

Dog, Cheerful, Littles

The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her

Husband, Self, Wife

We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.

Love You, Degrees, Deeds

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

Jesus, Suffering, Redemption

Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life.

Giving, Religion, Able

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

Giving, Rooms, Empty

By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.

Want, Praying, Ifs

Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.4, New World Library

Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.

Forgiveness, Children, Adults

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