My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.


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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
MOTHER TERESA
Give, but give until it hurts.
MOTHER TERESA
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the sam...
MOTHER TERESA
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
MOTHER TERESA
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
MOTHER TERESA
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
MOTHER THERESA
If I look at the mass I will never act.
MOTHER TERESA
At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we ha...
MOTHER TERESA
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and unca...
MOTHER TERESA
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
MOTHER TERESA
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
MOTHER TERESA
If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.
MOTHER TERESA
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
MOTHER TERESA
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
MOTHER TERESA
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
MOTHER TERESA
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
MOTHER TERESA
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
MOTHER TERESA
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love witho...
MOTHER TERESA
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
MOTHER TERESA
Work without love is slavery.
MOTHER TERESA
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
MOTHER TERESA
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
MOTHER TERESA
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for Go...
MOTHER TERESA
The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service<...
MOTHER TERESA
I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to...
MOTHER TERESA
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t...
MOTHER THERESA
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
MOTHER THERESA
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
MOTHER THERESA
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater ri...
MOTHER THERESA
When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food...
MOTHER THERESA
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
MOTHER THERESA
Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hea...
MOTHER THERESA
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, tha...
MOTHER THERESA
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of cha...
MOTHER THERESA
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
MOTHER THERESA
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in th...
MOTHER THERESA
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money...
MOTHER THERESA
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
MOTHER THERESA
There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
MOTHER THERESA
As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God an...
MOTHER THERESA
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
MOTHER THERESA
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
MOTHER THERESA
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; ...
MOTHER THERESA
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's ki...
MOTHER THERESA
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. I will be a saint means I will despoil m...
MOTHER THERESA
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac...
MOTHER THERESA
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none, If there be one, try to find i...
MOTHER GOOSE