1,029 Quotes by Mother Teresa

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone’s house. That says enough.

Don’t expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship.

If you ask children in the west where’s God, they’d point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.

There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love.

It’s not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn’t worth living, unless lived for other people.

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.

Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you really don’t want to smile at. Do it for Peace.

Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.