Mother Teresa Quotes - Mother Teresa


“We forget that forgiveness is greater than revenge. People make mistakes. We are allowed to make mistakes. But the actions we take while in a rage will haunt us forever.

 

Pause and ponder. Think before you act. Be patient. Forgive & forget. Love one and all.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

 

“Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”

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

 

It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home.

Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.”

 

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

 

“It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”

 

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

 

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

 

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

 

“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.”

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

 

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.”