Mother Teresa

Bekannte Zitate von Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

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

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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.

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.

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

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to removethan the hunger for bread.

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

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

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

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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

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

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

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.

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

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.