Mother Teresa of Calcutta
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaI believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaWhat I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaIf you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaLove has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaLoneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaTo keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaWe shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaIn the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the crippled, of the homeless, of the blind, in their name, I accept the award.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaIntense love does not measure; it just gives
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaBe faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaWe are all pencils in the hand of God.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaI have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaSpread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... 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 of CalcuttaSmile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaThe trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaIf you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaLove is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaLet us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaThere is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaJoy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaThere should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaLet us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. The rest will be given.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaSee how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa of CalcuttaWe can do no great things; only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta