On love: Love does not measure; it just gives.

Whatever we are like, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do but how much love we put into the doing... (so)… Put your love in living action.

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

In loving others you are loving God Himself...

We cannot do great things. We can only do little things with great love...

Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet, especially your family.

Smiling

Smile at each other, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at everyone - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

On prayer

Love to pray. Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself. Ask and seek and your heart will grow big enough to receive him as your own... Start and end each day with prayer.

On dryness

what to do when prayer becomes a struggle: Pray some more. (Such was Mother Teresa's 'dark night of the soul' and her antidote for it).

Be as a little child: Come to God as a child.

On surrender and work

The spirit of our Society (the Missionaries of Charity) is total surrender, loving trust and cheerfulness.. To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite... There is always the danger that we may do work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it for God... and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. I was expecting to be free, but God had his own plans... I will work all day. That is the best way.

On presence

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. (Keeping alert to the movements of the mind and trusting God continuously - waiting attentively for His grace.)

On silence

God is found in silence. See how nature: trees, flowers, grass - grow in silence. See the stars, the moon, sun, how they move in silence... We need to be silent to be able to touch souls.

On being holy

You have to be holy in the position you are in, and I have to be holy in the position that God has placed me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not a luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and me. We have been created for that.

On peace and war

Please choose the way of peace... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, never will, justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause... I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking myself, “What do they feel when they do this? I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it? I don't understand.”

Understanding the poor

Rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why they can't forgive, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them... The other day I dreamed I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, “Go back to earth. There are no slums up here”... Nakedness is not only for a piece of cloth, but nakedness is a loss of dignity, human dignity: The loss of what is beautiful, what is pure, what is chaste, what is virgin. Loss, homelessness is not only for a house made of bricks - homelessness is being that people are completely forgotten, rejected, left alone, as if they are nobody to nobody.

Modern life

Everybody seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater development, greater riches and so on. So 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 in the world.

Sharing

We have to share with people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. Jesus made it very clear: Whatever you do for the least of my brethren, you do it for me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me. Is that clear?

Loving what is

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

On always wanting things

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

On time: Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Miracles: Every day some miracle happens.

On seeing God in everyone

I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only One, that person is the one person in the world at that time... I see God in every human being. When I wash lepers' wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?

On abortion It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Kindness Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Let no one ever come away without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, and kindness in your smile.

See Catholic webpage Mother Teresa August 26, 1910 - September 5, 1997, and 32 Sayings of Mother Teresa referred to above. The book Something Beautiful for God (1969) by Malcolm Muggeridge is a copyright of the Missionaries of Charity.

Mother Teresa's Saying

I Will do More than belong......I Will participate.

I Will do More than believe......I Will practice.

I Will do More than forgive......I Will forget.

I Will do More than teach......I Will inspire.

I Will do More than care......I Will help.

I Will do More than dream......I Will work.

I Will do More than give......I Will serve.

If my pain and my darkness can comsole you ,

do what you want to do with me,

my lord Jesus,

if my sepaeration from you puts others on your path,and their love bring you joy,

then Jesus,I readly suffer that what you want I suffering,your will is evringthing I desire,now I know that you have never abandon me.

Everything we do is just the drop oin the ocean,but if we don't do it ,that drop will be missing forever.