Mother Teresa of Calcutta Quotes
God doesn't require us to succeed
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
Rolling Stone, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, December 1992
About Author: Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950
To keep a lamp burning
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Saints Among Us, Time, December 29, 1975
The greatest disease in the West
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty — it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
Simple Path, 1995
What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean
What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not 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
A Gift of God, 1975
There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
God made the world for the delight of human beings
God made the world for the delight of human beings — if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us — you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His.