Quotes by Mother Teresa

"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."

Mother Teresa on work   

"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."

Mother Teresa on abortion
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"There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough."

Mother Teresa on action   

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

Mother Teresa on action
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"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. "

Mother Teresa on love
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"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the end, it is between you and HIM not you and them."

Mother Teresa on
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""Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray." Mother Teresa "

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"True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile."

Mother Teresa on holiness
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"We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. 'I will be a saint' mean I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God."

Mother Teresa on holiness   

"Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that missing drop."

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