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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Mother Teresa

Work

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

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.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Mother Teresa

Ocean

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Mother Teresa

Smile

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Teresa

Being

Poverty

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Mother Teresa

Love

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Mother Teresa

Love

Being

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.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Strength

Lies

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Mother Teresa

Disguise

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.