MOTHER TERESA QUOTES

MOTHER TERESA Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. Good works are links that form a chain of love. I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. 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. I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. If we 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. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. Intense love does not measure, it just gives. It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. 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. 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. 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. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ...it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. Peace begins with a smile. Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. 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. 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. We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. Mother Teresa