“Peace begins with a smile.”
— Mother Teresa
“Life is a game, play it.”
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
“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.”
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
“Work without love is slavery.”
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
“Do small things, with great love.”
“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”
“Live simply so others may simply live.”
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
“If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”
“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.”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
“Together we can do great things.”
“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
“God speaks in the silence of the heart.”
“Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.”
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
“Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.”
“Helping hands are better than Praying Lips.”
“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.”
“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.”
“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
“Love to be real, it must cost – it must hurt – it must empty us of self.”
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”
“Never be so busy as not to think of others.”
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
“If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”
“Give, but give until it hurts.”
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”
“The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.”
“We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”
“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.”
“Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do ‘Nothing’ for you.”
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
“Let’s do something beautiful for God.”
“We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.”
“We have only today. Let us begin.”
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
“Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God.”
“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”
“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
“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.”
“Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.”
“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”
“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”
“Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.”
“The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”
“Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.”
“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.”
“There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”
“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”
“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 your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”
“Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”
“God gives us things to share, God doesn’t give us things to hold...”
“When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.”
“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.”
“Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.”
“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 love for each other.”
“Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus – a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”
“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.”
“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 true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.”
“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
“To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
“It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”
“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.”
“The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace.”
“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.”
“The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
“Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.”
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
“I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.”
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”
“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?”
“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”
“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.”
“Faith keeps the person who keeps the faith.”
“Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.”
“In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.”
“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 strength lies.”
“If I look at the mass I will never act.”
“One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”
“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.”
“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.”
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