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Mother Teresa Quotes about Prayer - Page 2

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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer

Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.

Prayer, Heart, Giving

Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

Prayer, Silence, Soul

Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.8, New World Library

I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.

Prayer, Heart, Silence

Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

In reality, there is only one true prayer, only one substantial prayer: Christ himself. There is only one voice which rises above the face of the earth, the voice of Christ. Prayer is oneness with Christ.

Prayer, Reality, Voice

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

Prayer, Catholic, Fruit

Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: 'What will convert America and save the world?' My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer.

Jesus, Prayer, Blessed

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

Prayer, Heart, And Love

Christ prays in me, Christ works in me, Christ thinks in me, Christ looks through my eyes, Christ speaks through my words, Christ works with my hands, Christ walks with my feet, Christ loves with my heart. As St Paul's prayer was: I belong to Christ and nothing will separate me from the love of Christ. It was that oneness, oneness with God in the Holy Spirit.

Prayer, Heart, Eye

Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

Prayer, Heart, Love Is

If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.

Prayer, Heart, Doubt

Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.

Prayer, People, Giving

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.

Life, Prayer, Sacrifice

"Love, a Fruit Always in Season: Daily Meditations from the Words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta". Book by Mother Teresa, edited by Dorothy S. Hunt, 1987.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Prayer, Flower, Light

Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of the world; for we are twenty-four hours then in His presence: in the hungry, in the naked, in the homeless, in the unwanted, unloved, uncared for. For Jesus said, Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

Jesus, Prayer, Heart

Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

My prayer for you is that you may grow in the likeness of Christ, being real carriers of God's love and that you really bring his presence, first, into your own family, then, to the next door neighbor, the street you we live in, the town we live in, the country we live, then only, in the whole world, that living example of God's presence.

Country, Prayer, Real

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

Faith, Peace, Prayer

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.

Prayer, Book, Weapons

All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.

Jesus, Prayer, Motivation

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

Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.

Prayer, Blood, Soul

Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he cannot command the impossible. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice by an intense inner life. There is no limit because God is love, love is God, God's love is infinite. But part is to love and to give until it hurts. That's why it is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the action.

Hurt, Prayer, Love You

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

Prayer, Giving, Meditation

Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. Ask and seek and you heart will grow big enough to receive Him and to keep Him as your own. Wherever God has put you, that is your vocation. It is not what we do but how much love we put into it.

Prayer, Heart, Enough

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'.

Jesus, Prayer, Simple

The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.

Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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