If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
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Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.
The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love.
Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.
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.
Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn’t expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.
I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
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 his love than in your weakness.
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
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
God hasn’t called us to be successful, just faithful.
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
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.
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.
Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.
Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.” ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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.
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
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.
You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.
Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?
I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.
He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.
One of the realities we’re all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.
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.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.
I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.
Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.
I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.
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.
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.
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.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.
Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.
every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing
If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.
We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred…If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God’s own love and concern.
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.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
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 bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.
When you judge someone you have no time to love them.
Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.” -Mother Teresa
God hasn’t called me to be successful. He’s called me to be faithful.
I am like a little pencil in God’s hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
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 you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
We want to create hope for the person … we must give hope always hope.
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
It is not what we do it is how much love we put in the doing.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person.
If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God’s gift of Himself.
Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.
We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
Joy is prayer joy is strength: joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Joy is prayer joy is strength: joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.