Teresa Calcutta Quotations

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.

True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile

What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

Facing the media is more difficult than bathing a leper.

We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.