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Mother Teresa Quotes - Page 30

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People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.

People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.

People, Bread, Hunger

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.

People, Easy, Far Away

My television is the tabernacle.

Faith, Inspiration, Christian Inspirational

Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me.

God, Feelings, Would Be

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

Two, That One Person, Thousand

I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

Thinking, Worry, Simplicity

Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.70, New World Library

I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.

Numbers, What Matters, Waiting

"Mother Teresa's Reaching Out in Love: Stories Told by Mother Teresa". Compiled and Edited by Edward Le Joly and Jaya Chaliha, Barnes & Noble, p. 122, 2002.

Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.

Prayer, Heart, Able

Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.15, New World Library

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

Spiritual, Loneliness, Poverty

Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.94, New World Library

Jesus loved everyone, but he loved children most of all. Today we know that unborn children are the targets of destruction. We must thank our parents for wanting us, for loving us and for taking such good care of us.

Christian, Jesus, Children

The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy....We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is in love with God. All over the world people are hungry and thirsty for God's love. We meet that hunger by spreading joy. Joy is one of the best safeguards against temptation.

Gratitude, Spring, Heart

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.

Love, Home, Compassion

Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.

Love, Daughter, Clever

Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.

Children, Thrown, Unloved

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

Men, California, Death Penalty

It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!

Christian, Evil, Abortion

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.'

Mother, Jesus, Children

You can and you must expect suffering.

Work, Suffering

Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

God Is Using Gianna Jessen To Remind The World, That Each Human Being Is Precious To Him.

World, Humans, Human Beings

A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.

Beautiful, Death, Angel

Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

Prayer, Real, Catholic

Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.11, New World Library

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.

Eye, People, Catholic

In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

Jesus, Poor, Disguise

If you want to pray better, you have to pray more.

Want, Praying, Ifs

But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult.

Beautiful, Jesus, Difficult

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