Mother Teresa

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.

A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.

Love - the more you share with others, the more you have.

When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.

I am sure that all people know deep down inside that the little child in the mother's womb is a human being from the moment of conception, created in the image of God to love and be loved. Let us pray that nobody will be afraid to protect that little child, to help that little child to be born. Jesus said: 'If you receive a little child in my name, you receive me.'

Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.

When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.

You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.

The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise.

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.

Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.

I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.

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.

The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.

Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.

We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.

By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion.