Mother Teresa Quotes About Spirituality
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I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.
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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.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandonded, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty.
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I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.
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It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
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Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.
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We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
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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.
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The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.
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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
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