1,029 Quotes by Mother Teresa

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day.

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.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers...

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

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

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.