3 December 2020 Mother Teresa 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.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa 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.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
