Generosity Mother Teresa Quotes

Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full. ~ Mother Teresa

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love. ~ Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.. ~ Mother Teresa

If you want to pray better, you have to pray more. ~ Mother Teresa

We belong to each other. ~ Mother Teresa

The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved. ~ Mother Teresa

Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy. ~ Mother Teresa

If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too. ~ Mother Teresa

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God. ~ Mother Teresa

Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers. ~ Mother Teresa

You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. Jesus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me. Clear. ~ Mother Teresa

Together we can do great things. ~ Mother Teresa

When I feel like I'm stuck, I do something - not like I'm Mother Teresa or anything, but there's someone that's forgotten about in your life, all the time. Someone that could use an 'Attaboy' or a 'How you doin' out there. ~ Bill Murray

I'd ask you to be careful tomorrow, if I thought you'd listen to me,' I said to him.
He looked sympathetic but annoyed. 'Mum, I'm not a baby anymore.' Then sensing that I was on the verge of crying, he hugged me gently to his chest.
I couldn't remember the last time he'd hugged me this way. With my face pressed next to his heart I whispered softly, 'You'll always be my baby.' The hug grew firmer and the teardrops began to fall freely. ~ Teresa Schulz

Loneliness is the most terrible form of poverty. ~ Mother Teresa

Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him! ~ Mother Teresa

A priest once asked Mother Teresa if she would pray that God would give him clarity in a choice he had to make. She told him, God may never give you clarity. All you can do is trust. ~ Matthew Kelly

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

~Mother Teresa ~ Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa, when asked about her holiness or saintliness, always answers in a matter-of-fact way that holiness is a necessity of life--and explains that it is not the luxury of a few, such as those who take the course of religious life, but is "a simple duty of all. Holiness is for everyone. ~ Lucinda Vardey

One thing I ask you to do, you people who have
the pen in your hand, allow God to use you so that you never write
anything that will destroy, that will hurt, but always take the trouble
to write something beautiful, to help the people to see better, to love
better, to come closer ... to each other. ~ Mother Teresa

Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more. ~ Mother Teresa

Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you. ~ Mother Teresa

Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. ~ Mother Teresa

My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know. ~ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see? ~ Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you catch souls. ~ Mother Teresa

The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ~ Mother Teresa

I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself ~ Sean Covey

Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life. ~ Mother Teresa

To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite. ~ Mother Teresa

Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people. ~ Mother Teresa

If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus, ... will it not be worth ... giving all for that? ~ Mother Teresa

Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing. ~ Mother Teresa

Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him. ~ Mother Teresa

The fruit of faith is love. ~ 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

I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.' ~ Olivia Hussey

Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love. ~ Mother Teresa

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action. ~ Mother Teresa

People crave attention and appreciation more than they do bread. ~ Mother Teresa

We are called to be contemplatives..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time ... ~ Mother Teresa

There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy. ~ Mother Teresa

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference. ~ Mother Teresa