Teresa Collins > Teresa's Quotes

“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
― Mother Teresa

“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
― Mother Teresa

“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.”
― Mother Teresa

“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
― Mother Teresa

“In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East -- especially in India -- I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening wihtout a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving -- it is not in the result of loving.

These words, taken from the book A Simple Path, are the words of one of the Missionaries of Charity Sisters, not of Mother Teresa.”
― Mother Teresa

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

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

“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

“There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”
― Mother Teresa

“We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.”
― Mother Teresa

“There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.”
― Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.”
― Mother Teresa

“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”
― 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.”
― Mother Teresa

“If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.”
― Mother Teresa

“I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.”
― Mother Teresa

“The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.”
― Mother Teresa

“Have courage for whatever comes.”
― Mother Teresa

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.”
― Mother Teresa