Authors - Mother Teresa
Brief Biography
Mother Teresa was born Gonxha (Agnes) Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Yugoslavia, on August 27, 1910. Mother Teresa was her own person, startlingly independent, obedient, yet challenging some preconceived notions and expectations. Her own life story includes many illustrations of her willingness to listen to and follow her own conscience, even when it seemed to contradict what was expected. - American Catholic
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Quote 1154by Anonymous on 10/01/2011
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Quote 1296by Anonymous on 12/01/2011
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Quote 1534by Anonymous on 14/01/2011
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Quote 1625by Anonymous on 14/01/2011
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
Quote 1779by Anonymous on 16/01/2011
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Quote 1891by Anonymous on 19/01/2011
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Quote 2090by Anonymous on 22/01/2011
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Quote 2250by Anonymous on 25/01/2011
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Quote 2280by Anonymous on 27/01/2011
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Quote 2434by Anonymous on 29/01/2011
We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
Quote 2464by Anonymous on 30/01/2011
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Quote 2470by Anonymous on 30/01/2011
A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.
Quote 2781by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Quote 2819by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Quote 2850by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Quote 3319by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.
Quote 3355by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Quote 3539by Anonymous on 06/02/2011
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
Quote 3661by Anonymous on 09/02/2011
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Quote 3751by Anonymous on 09/02/2011
There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.
Quote 4038by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Quote 4260by Anonymous on 18/02/2011
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.
Quote 4315by Anonymous on 19/02/2011
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Quote 4644by Anonymous on 25/02/2011
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Quote 9072by Anonymous on 16/06/2012
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Quote 9446by Anonymous on 31/07/2012
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Quote 10021by Anonymous on 08/09/2012
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Quote 10719by Anonymous on 22/10/2012
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.