~ Mother Teresa Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

[MysteRy]

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

[MysteRy]

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

[MysteRy]

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

[MysteRy]

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

[MysteRy]

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

[MysteRy]

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

[MysteRy]

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

[MysteRy]

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

[MysteRy]

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

[MysteRy]

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

[MysteRy]

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See 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.

[MysteRy]

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.