Mother Teresa Quotes About Love
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Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.
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If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
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I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.
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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
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I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
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Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.
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God loves the world through us.
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Spread your love everywhere you go.
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I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
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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.
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Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
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And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.
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Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.
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There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
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You know my God. My God is called love
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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.
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These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.
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The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
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Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
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There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.
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We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
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The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
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What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
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We are all pencils in the hand of God.
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Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
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