Mother Teresa Quotations | Page 4

Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.

Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.

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.

Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life.

We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it

Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.

Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there