1,029 Quotes by Mother Teresa

Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

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.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.