Donna Waters > Donna's Quotes

“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”
― Mother Teresa

“When you don't have anything, then you have everything.”
― Mother Teresa

“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
― Mother Teresa

“Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”
― Mother Theresa of Calcutta

“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”
― Mother Teresa

“Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.”
― Mother Teresa

“In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”
― Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”
― Mother Teresa

“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”
― Mother Teresa

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
― Mother Teresa

“‎Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
― Mother Teresa

“Why can't there be love that never gets tired?”
― Mother Teresa

“Everything that is not given is lost.”
― Mother Teresa

“One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.”
― Mother Teresa

“Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

“Joy is strength.”
― Mother Teresa

“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.”
― Mother Teresa

“Never be so busy as not to think of others.”
― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

“The biggest diease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody.”
― Mother Teresa

“In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

“At the hour of death when we come face-to-face with God, we are going to be judged on love; not how much we have done, but how much love we put into the doing.”
― Mother Teresa

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
― Mother Teresa

“Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.”
― Mother Teresa, A Simple Path

“I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.”
― Mother Teresa

“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.”
― Mother Teresa

“When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.”
― Mother Teresa, A Simple Path

“As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves but does not speak … I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have free hand.”
― Mother Teresa

“You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.”
― Mother Theresa

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Mother Teresa