1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary
As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.
Mother Teresa – [Missionaries]
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.
Mother Teresa – [Sympathy]
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.
Mother Teresa – [Love]
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa – [Action]
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa – [Riches]
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
Mother Teresa – [Peace]
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
Mother Teresa – [Jesus Christ]
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa – [Love]
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa – [God]
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.
Mother Teresa – [Love]
If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.
Mother Teresa – [Reform]
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa – [Peace]
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa – [Service]
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa – [Judgment and Judges]
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love
Mother Teresa – [Love]
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Teresa – [Giving]
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love
Mother Teresa – [Joy]
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa – [Kindness]
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.
Mother Teresa – [Kindness]
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.
Mother Teresa – [Aid and Assistance]