A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
Mother TeresaPut your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.
Mother TeresaIf you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.
Mother TeresaDearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: "Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you.
Mother Teresa