The
other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St.
Peter said, 'Go back to Earth. There are no slums up here.'
Mother Teresa
Quoted as telling Prince Michael of Greece
in 1996 |
There
is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than
for bread.
Mother Teresa |
There
must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They
must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste.
When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa
A Gift for God |
To
keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa |
True
holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile.
Mother Teresa |
We
can do no great things; only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa |
We
need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers,
grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun,
how they move in silence
We need silence to be able to
touch souls.
Mother Teresa |
We
must have a real living determination to reach holiness. 'I
will be a saint' means I will despoil myself of all that is
not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will
live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my
inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing
slave to the will of God.
Mother Teresa
A Gift for God |
We
ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the
ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing
drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.
Mother Teresa
A Gift for God |
When
I see waste here, I feel angry on the inside. I don't approve
of myself getting angry. But it's something you can't help after
seeing Ethiopia.
Mother Teresa
Washington 1984 |