Favorite Quotations Mother Teresa, 2 Everything Starts from Prayer

"We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if that drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed." ~ Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

God wants to show his greatness by using nothingness.

When I see waste here, I feel angry on the inside. I don't approve of myself getting angry. But it's something you can't help after seeing Ethiopia.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

Holiness is not the luxury of a few. It is everyone's duty: yours and mine.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the check-post whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: "Oh yes, my prayer books."

God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?

I think I'm more difficult than critical.

God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.

When we touch the sick and needy, we touch the suffering body of Christ. If there are poor in the moon, we will go there too.

Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ~ Time 12/29/75

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