We 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 TERESAPrayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
More Mother Teresa Quotes
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Intense love does not measure it just gives.
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A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves.
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Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
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When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.
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To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
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In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.
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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
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God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.
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Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
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Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.
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Do 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.
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I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one. That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
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We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
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Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
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Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
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If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
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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.
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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
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Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
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