Mother Teresa

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, 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

I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.

People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.

Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

There is no great difference in reality between one country and another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, they may have a different education or position; but they are all the same. They are all people to be loved.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.

All works of love are works of peace.

Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.