MOTHER TERESA BOOK OF QUOTES

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

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

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”

“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

“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.”

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

“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.”

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

“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.” MONDAY QUOTE OF THE DAY FOR WORK

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”

“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.”

“Love to be real, it must cost – it must hurt – it must empty us of self.”

“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.”

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

“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”

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

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

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”