Mother Teresa

Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

Mother Teresa

Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. … We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today.

Mother Teresa

Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

Mother Teresa

We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses – tabernacles we call them – and over 4600 nuns. It’s simply to serve the poorest of the poor. We are wanted and we have championed those who have nothing, the deprived children of God.

Mother Teresa

We interfere with God’s plans when we push in someone or something else not suitable for us. Be strict with yourself, and then be very strict with what you are receiving from the outside.

Mother Teresa

We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

Mother Teresa

We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

Mother Teresa

We must love prayer. It widens the heart to the point of making it capable of containing the gift that God makes of himself. Ask and seek, and your heart will be widened to welcome him and to keep him within itself.

Mother Teresa

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.

Mother Teresa

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

Mother Teresa