Joy is strength.
MOTHER TERESAJoy is strength.
MOTHER TERESAWe know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
MOTHER TERESAYesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
MOTHER TERESAWe need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
MOTHER TERESADo not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
MOTHER TERESAIf you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.
MOTHER TERESAWhen you don’t have anything, then you have everything.
MOTHER TERESABe happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
MOTHER TERESALove begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
MOTHER TERESAI do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
MOTHER TERESAThere are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
MOTHER TERESAIf you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
MOTHER TERESAA life not lived for others is not a life.
MOTHER TERESAPeople are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
MOTHER TERESAIt is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
MOTHER TERESASome people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
MOTHER TERESA