Jesus did not always like the Apostles' way of acting, but by adapting himself to their temperament, praying for them to his father, giving them a holy example of conduct, he loved them, and that love changed them.


Mother Angelica

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, / Until...
BIBLE
When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she an...
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN
No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and p...
DESMOND MORRIS
Tell them we may not be praying with them," Father told the Vicar, "but we are at least not actively...
ALAN BRADLEY
She did everything for them, changed their diapers. She was the mother hen.
WANDA LEWIS
Feast of Pentecost Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 It was something more ...
CHARLES GORE
No matter how old we become, we can still call them "Holy Mother" and "Father" and put a child-like ...
DESMOND MORRIS
God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy...
SOCRATES
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turne...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Both of them were so mature. They really loved each other. Both of them also loved their families in...
LESA NEEHAN
Their apostles said to them: We are nothing but mortals like yourselves, but Allah bestows (His) fav...
QURAN
There were lots of early Christian groups. They all claimed to be right. They all had books to back ...
BART D. EHRMAN
Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street,...
STEVEN SEAGAL
Now: unlike ourselves, the Father of Jesus loves men and women, not for what He finds in them, but f...
JAMES BURTSCHAELL
The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory ...
DAVID A. BEDNAR
Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his...
IRVING STONE
Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved h...
CASSANDRA CLARE
God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are per...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
He says from Him, as Augustine says in the book On the Trinity, on account of the Father; he says th...
PETER LOMBARD
If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salv...
A.W. TOZER
I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate ...
WAYNE DYER
I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that...
DOUG E. FRESH
They were living to themselves: self, with its hopes, and promises, and dreams, still had hold of th...
ELIZABETH PAYSON PRENTISS
My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always ro...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE
When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of te...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
He was never embarrassed about hugging and kissing anyone he loved, even his mother. He loved with a...
LESA NEEHAN
If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, th...
LOUISE L. HAY
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
ALBERT CAMUS
Several of them told stories about how Jesus had made them better by not letting them quit or by mak...
DAVID REAM
Jesus Christ came for me, and he came for each person that is infected with HIV/AIDS. God loves that...
FRANKLIN GRAHAM
A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to brin...
T.S. ELIOT
And those who believe in Allah and His apostles and do not make a distinction between any of them-- ...
QURAN
A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to...
T. E. LAWRENCE
I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them
BIBLE
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune...
RICHARD WHATELY
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
SOCRATES
The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to l...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortu...
RICHARD WHATELY
My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true,...
SONAKSHI SINHA
A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him p...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults shou...
TODD BURPO
LOVERS ARE SELFISH, THEY ALWAYS WANT THEIR LOVED ONES TO LOVE THEM MORE THAN EVERYTHING. BUT FRIENDS...
MARKHANDEYA
The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the lea...
JOHN PIPER
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on t...
BIBLE
I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.
BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN
I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass the...
WILL SCHWALBE
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and ...
GORDON ATKINSON
Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 These things I did not see by the help of man,...
GEORGE FOX
Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 I think that most Christians would be better pl...
A. W. TOZER
He loved his family. But he was not proud of them. Their principal achievement was survival. It woul...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that und...
STEPHEN COVEY
It became by mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help th...
JOSE A. AVILES ED. D.
…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning spee...
PATRICK SüSKIND
We are praying for them and their family.
KIM ADAMS
People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties ...
ELLEN DEGENERES
And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother...
BIBLE
Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of ge...
JOYCE MEYER
He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choic...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays...
CHARLES DICKENS
Chase.” He cleared his throat and shook his head once. “That girl means everything to me. Which ...
MOLLY MCADAMS
Jesus confronted many of the important issues of His time. He went into the temple, taught the New T...
ZECHARIAH BARRETT
Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all ...
ANTHONY QUINN
For a childless couple who follow truth and are honest they are very few options to get a baby. 1 Th...
APURVA GAGLANI
I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, a...
LEO TOLSTOY
We are beating ourselves. We're giving them too much, giving them too many opportunities. We need to...
MARGO JONKER
The Father and His Sons A father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselv...
AESOP
Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of o...
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU
Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
A. C. MCGIFFERT
We will support them in their initiatives and help them to find the way, but now it's up to them to ...
DENIS OSWALD
Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, ...
BIBLE
And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?"
And I said "Yes," because lo...
MARK HADDON
He loved them just like they were his own.
BRUCE SCOTT
I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision...
WERNER HERZOG
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mea...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines...
GLENDA JACKSON
You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are...
ORSON F. WHITNEY
It seems a lot of Christians are quick to condemn the world and write its inhabitants off as lost ca...
KATHERINE J WALDEN
'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political e...
JOHN WATERS
But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did ever...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN
He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no ...
ANTHONY HOPE
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. ...
DALE CARNEGIE
Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch the...
H. L. MENCKEN
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch the...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy myst...
FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to by brethren,...
BIBLE
The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now won...
JANET ALLEN
Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them b...
SCOTT ALLEN
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that not...
J. K. ROWLING
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that not...
J.K. ROWLING
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that not...
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING
In some countries, the strictly Progressive man reveals himself to be just as much as if not more pr...
CRISS JAMI
We need to protect the kids by giving them something to do, ... (It's about) making them interested,...
JAMES BROWN
Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went t...
JOHN OWEN
We shouldn't hate anyone. God tells us to love them. He loved their humanity.
GENE COLLINS
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and alway...
DAVID ANTIN
He loved people and it crushed him not to be a cop. He was a street cop through and through. He just...
DONNA FARRELL
I'm a different person who's not my father or my mother. I want to be treated differently fr...
TWINKLE KHANNA

More Mother Angelica

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Saints are ordinary people who love Jesus, try to be like him, are faithful to the duties of their s...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that f...
MOTHER ANGELICA
God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect esca...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak.
MOTHER ANGELICA
The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Mary's life was a perfect imitation of Jesus. She was humble, hidden, sorrowful and afflicted, b...
MOTHER ANGELICA
No man can see God in this life and live because His glory would annihilate our poor, weak human nat...
MOTHER ANGELICA
We often forget that everything we see, animate or inanimate, is a visual manifestation of the work ...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Love fills and empties simultaneously. It makes us reach out to God, ready to be pruned, recklessly ...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Jesus made Himself available to everyone. Unlike former prophets and the religious men of His day, w...
MOTHER ANGELICA
The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all thing...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Every moment of life is like a sacrament in which we can receive God. It is a channel through which ...
MOTHER ANGELICA
I am a mirror to my neighbor, and in that mirror, he must see a reflection of Jesus. If that mirror ...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Family life is the backbone of mankind, and that life is dependent upon mutual giving, sharing, and ...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, a...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater ...
MOTHER ANGELICA
When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we a...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Every retarded, deformed, crippled, handicapped, or senile person, who has been baptized, is a power...
MOTHER ANGELICA
At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.
MOTHER ANGELICA
Religious life is an encounter with the living God. Sometimes that encounter is preceded by a kind o...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Love has been defined, analyzed, explained and excused. It has been the cause of wars, feuds, herois...
MOTHER ANGELICA
The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, lig...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The a...
MOTHER ANGELICA
My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, le...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling t...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern l...
MOTHER ANGELICA
I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.
MOTHER ANGELICA
I must listen as God speaks to my soul through good thoughts, inspirations, and intuitions.
MOTHER ANGELICA
I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of hum...
MOTHER ANGELICA
A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh m...
MOTHER ANGELICA
I must not permit the evil capabilities of human nature to sour my faith in the tremendous good that...
MOTHER ANGELICA
God's grace is at its best in weakness, so we need never fear our weakness. In fact, these weakn...
MOTHER ANGELICA
The heart of Jesus is compassionate and understanding. It has felt the sting of ingratitude, and whe...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be f...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Jesus told us to learn from him how to be meek and humble of heart. We must look at his life if we a...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily.
MOTHER ANGELICA
There should be in the life of every married couple a continual building of the sacrament.
MOTHER ANGELICA
Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you ...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Like Jesus, every human being has enough memories in his past to occupy his time and thoughts contin...
MOTHER ANGELICA
We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when ...
MOTHER ANGELICA
We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis ...
MOTHER ANGELICA
When our neighbor's personality possesses harsh qualities, we show our love by not voluntarily p...
MOTHER ANGELICA
There are many who are not guilty of doing anything wrong but very guilty of sins of omission - the ...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Any form of over-indulgence creates within the body warning signs of destruction.
MOTHER ANGELICA
Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in ou...
MOTHER ANGELICA
When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone...
MOTHER ANGELICA
St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten an...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Jesus wants us to trust him to take care of all our yesterdays and tomorrows.
MOTHER ANGELICA
Jesus was happy when people acknowledged his dignity and saddened when they did not, but he never so...
MOTHER ANGELICA
A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.
MOTHER ANGELICA
If we disagree on the how and when (of a boycott), we're united in the strategy of seeking comprehen...
ANGELICA SALAS
The movement is driven locally, not nationally.
ANGELICA SALAS
We don't want people to feel like if they don't boycott they're not participating in the movement, [...
ANGELICA SALAS
It is critical that we are embraced by the American public.
ANGELICA SALAS
Our challenge is to transform this massive movement of people in the streets into a massive movement...
ANGELICA SALAS
What we're doing is building a movement that will transform America.
ANGELICA SALAS
We are good people who want to contribute to this nation. More than anything, people were saying, 'T...
ANGELICA SALAS
Immigration law is civil law; law enforcement never enforces civil law.
ANGELICA SALAS
Immigrants are really trying to be present and visible in their opposition to the bill.
ANGELICA SALAS
You can't really put it into words. It was disappointing because we knew we could have won. It's rea...
ANGELICA SAILS
We're happy to go to state. We've been trying to go farther and farther each year. And we finally ma...
ANGELICA SAILS
Coach really didn't have to tell us anything, we just knew it was time to step up. As a team, we sho...
ANGELICA SAILS
We know how close we were last year, but we don't dwell on that. We're looking to the future and hop...
ANGELICA SAILS
I started off kind of rough, but I saw we were kind of struggling. We needed someone to step up.
ANGELICA SAILS
You can see it in designer shops in Shanghai and Beijing.
ANGELICA CHEUNG
For the second kind of readers, Vogue offers fashion concepts, and helps to cultivate their taste an...
ANGELICA CHEUNG
You get the readers familiar with the designers, you show them what works, and sometimes you actuall...
ANGELICA CHEUNG
You inspire the girl to believe if I take care of myself, if I buy the right things, and I educate m...
ANGELICA CHEUNG
Just a few years ago, China definitely wasn't ready and didn't have consumers at the level of Vogue....
ANGELICA CHEUNG
Many or few alternatives can be at hand. A wise and skilful choice acts from a sincere effort. Solut...
ANGELICA HOPES
I am just trying to recoup some of the pieces. I have a very hard time understanding people that tak...
ANGELICA DIAZ
Chuck was bohemian at heart. He loved what was happening there. He became a part of the family.
ANGELICA DIAZ
I'm extremely proud of the girls. They passed well and talked to each other. We've never hosted a st...
ANGELICA CHAVEZ
I would have liked a little bit of insurance goals, but it didn't work out that way. That's OK becau...
ANGELICA CHAVEZ
I am satisfied with our team's effort. The last time, we were without some of our starters, so we wa...
ANGELICA CHAVEZ
Sheldon has a reputation for being such a tough guy on the ice because he is a great defender who pr...
ANGELICA BRIDGES
The world is constantly looking at you as if you're under a microscope. That can put a lot of pressu...
ANGELICA BRIDGES
I've been asked before if my butt was real, and of course it is. I guess it's just so round and perk...
ANGELICA BRIDGES
In a feast of fame and talks,
Scandal flashing, raising tongue and brows.
In a blast of bo...
ANGELICA HOPES
TYIS (internet slang: 'Thank You, I'll Share' your post)
ANGELICA NIGHTINGALE
That was the one that really upset me.
ANGELICA DIAZ
Don't step on shits, don't be part of shits, don't shit on others as you escape from other bullshits...
ANGELICA HOPES
Security means the state of being free from danger or threat.

Danger means the possibili...
ANGELICA HOPES
The secret lies of manipulative folks, however hidden and cunningly twisted shall eventually come ou...
ANGELICA HOPES
Why croak with dishonesty when your target subject discovers, listens, and witnesses beyond the veil...
ANGELICA HOPES
People spread gossips, calumny, and false accusations to destroy their subject victim's integrity. Q...
ANGELICA HOPES
I observe that many abusive netizens and insidious individuals kidnap the truth. Their hatred and ca...
ANGELICA HOPES
In the soul of all liars, the unparalleled truth is a sickness.
The unparalleled truth shall c...
ANGELICA HOPES
For those who misused others for their business gains: you can never pluck the real essence of a bea...
ANGELICA HOPES
I only lack what I perceive as a necessity
ANGELICA NIGHTINGALE
If you like to look at rainbows, expect some rain ...
ANGELICA NIGHTINGALE
Don't ever accuse anyone of being full of pride, undignified and unprofessional when simply they are...
ANGELICA HOPES
Honesty whispers, "Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.
ANGELICA HOPES
The difference between darkness and brightness is how you thrive on those moments and how you use su...
ANGELICA HOPES
If you see oppression, violence, injustice and evil deeds, unzip your silence and uncaring indiffere...
ANGELICA HOPES
There's one antidote for haters: show them how golden HEARTS should be.
"Hearts" is a word tha...
ANGELICA HOPES
Good or bad, let them talk, for when they talk no more, you no longer are ...
ANGELICA NIGHTINGALE
Don't mistake keen, honest observations as complaints.

When you receive a help, a donati...
ANGELICA HOPES
Chauvinism is totally absent in a heart of a man who truly respects a woman.
~ Angelica Hopes, ...
ANGELICA HOPES
Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
ANGELICA HOPES
Don't ever accuse anyone of being full of pride, undignified and unprofessional when simply they are...
ANGELICA HOPES
Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our so...
ANGELICA HOPES
Found myself kneeling in Your presence
Seeking Your wisdom and embrace
Letting go all the ...
ANGELICA DAVID
Beware of destructive individuals whose spirits breathe every day the worst toxic oxygen of the soul...
ANGELICA HOPES
Loan sharking may mean investment and immediate solutions but desperate loan sharks, who are short o...
ANGELICA HOPES
Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty. ~ Michael A. van Doorn, Odyssey of a Heart...
ANGELICA HOPES
Financial parasites: greedy people who live luxurious life at the expense and hard work of others." ...
ANGELICA HOPES
The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability.
ANGELICA HOPES
There are abusive individuals whose worst little demons are greed, sloth,envy, gluttony, pride and w...
ANGELICA HOPES
happiness dwells within
ANGELICA NIGHTINGALE
see the water in the glass and care not whether it's half empty or half full
ANGELICA NIGHTINGALE
...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you'...
ANGELICA BANKS
Figs are delicious with soft cheese and ham,
Toast is quite scrumptious with butter and jam, ANGELICA BANKS
The butter from Dorothy's' crumpet
Dripped into the bell of her trumpet.

Sweet young...
ANGELICA BANKS
Not all generous hearts are gullible enough to be screwed by cold, calculating, business propaganda....
ANGELICA HOPES
Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films cre...
ANGELICA HOPES
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
MOTHER TERESA
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
MOTHER TERESA
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
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 TERESA
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money...
MOTHER TERESA
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touc...
MOTHER TERESA
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
MOTHER TERESA
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
MOTHER TERESA
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call...
MOTHER TERESA
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, i...
MOTHER JONES
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence...
MOTHER TERESA
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; a...
MOTHER THERESA
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call...
MOTHER THERESA
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only...
MOTHER THERESA
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the ...
MOTHER THERESA
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
MOTHER THERESA
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a ...
MOTHER THERESA
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love witho...
MOTHER THERESA
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
MOTHER THERESA
There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a bro...
MOTHER THERESA
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
MOTHER THERESA
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
MOTHER THERESA
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
MOTHER THERESA
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
MOTHER THERESA
I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be th...
MOTHER JONES
On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets.
MOTHER JONES
The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them...
MOTHER JONES
Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's ...
MOTHER JONES
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. H...
MOTHER TERESA
These are the few ways we can practice humility:

To speak as little as possible of one's ...
MOTHER TERESA
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
MOTHER TERESA
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at...
MOTHER TERESA
Peace begins with a smile..
MOTHER TERESA
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