Holy Angels, our advocates, our brothers, our counselors, our defenders, our enlighteners, our friends, our guides, our helpers, our intercessors - Pray for us.
Mother TeresaIf you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.
Mother TeresaWe must love prayer. It widens the heart to the point of making it capable of containing the gift that God makes of himself. Ask and seek, and your heart will be widened to welcome him and to keep him within itself.
Mother TeresaIf you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
Mother TeresaPerpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls everywhere and peace on earth. We cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the difference it will make in our world
Mother TeresaLove cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.
Mother TeresaIf you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway
Mother TeresaLove has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
Mother TeresaI alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother TeresaWe must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family
Mother TeresaYour true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you
Mother TeresaIn order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion.
Mother TeresaI have never found a problem with people from different religions praying together. What I have found is that people are just hungry for God, and be they Christian or Muslim we invite them to pray with us.
Mother TeresaIn the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.
Mother TeresaHow do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.
Mother TeresaThe biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother TeresaIn doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the end those incredulous to what you put up with to help, no longer matter. It's not between you and those snobs, but with whom you have given your hand to lift, and of course to God who Is watching and noting it in your book.
Mother TeresaIn loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.
Mother TeresaGod Is Using Gianna Jessen To Remind The World, That Each Human Being Is Precious To Him.
Mother TeresaThe poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.
Mother TeresaMany people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor.
Mother TeresaIf you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.
Mother TeresaWe 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
Mother TeresaJoy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.
Mother TeresaEvery human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.
Mother TeresaIn response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.
Mother TeresaIf everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?
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