“I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt,
only more love.”
―
Mother Teresa
“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.”
―
Mother Teresa
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”
―
Mother Teresa
“The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.”
―
Mother Teresa
“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.”
―
Mother Teresa
“By our life and deeds of love, we are making the Church fully present in the world today.”
―
Mother Teresa
“He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”
―
Mother Teresa
“God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.”
―
Mother Teresa
“In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.”
―
Mother Teresa
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
―
Mother Teresa
“God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold...”
―
Mother Teresa
