“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.”
―
Mother Teresa
“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
―
Mother Teresa
“We are not called to be successful, but faithful.”
―
Mother Teresa
“The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
―
Mother Teresa
“The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace”
―
Mother Teresa
“I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.”
―
Mother Teresa
“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.”
―
Mother Teresa
“In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East -- especially in India -- I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening wihtout a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving -- it is not in the result of loving.
―
Mother Teresa
“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.”
―
Mother Teresa
“If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”
―
Mother Teresa
“God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.”
―
Mother Teresa
