Mother Teresa

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

Jesus wants me to tell you again...how much is the love He has for each one of you-beyond all what you can imagine...Not only He loves you, even more - He longs for you. He misses you when you don't come close. He thirsts for you. He loves you always, even when you don't feel worthy.

Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

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.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.

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.

There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy.