Straight to the Heart: Quotes from Mother Theresa

• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
• 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.
• Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
• Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
• I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
• 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.
• I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
• 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.
• Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
• Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
• Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
• Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
• Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.