1,029 Quotes by Mother Teresa

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

Be faithful in the little things.

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament,

Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.

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 can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.