1,029 Quotes by Mother Teresa

If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled.

Each time people come into contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God’s love.

Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that’s real hunger.

If we are Christians, we must look like Christ – this is my deep conviction.

We don’t need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring peace – just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct.

God loves me. I’m not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.

I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless – to be God’s Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.