The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

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

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one… That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives – the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your...

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

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...

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

Give, but give until it hurts.

If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have...

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...

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor . . . Let no one ever come...

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

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...

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your...

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I...

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love.” – Mother Theresa

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts,...

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn’t matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater...

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Christ came to be Father’s compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh...

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Do small things with great love.

If you can’t do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can’t do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can’t do...

Peace begins with a smile..

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.