Mother Teresa on Life Quotes

The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth. There are no slums up here.' Mother Teresa Quoted as telling Prince Michael of Greece in 1996

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. Mother Teresa

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. Mother Teresa A Gift for God

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa

True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile. Mother Teresa

We can do no great things; only small things with great love. Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa

We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. 'I will be a saint' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God. Mother Teresa A Gift for God

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things. Mother Teresa A Gift for God

When I see waste here, I feel angry on the inside. I don't approve of myself getting angry. But it's something you can't help after seeing Ethiopia. Mother Teresa Washington 1984