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Holiness is not the

luxury of the few; it is a

simply duty…

The hunger for love is

much more difficult to

remove than the hunger 

for bread.

Spread love everywhere

you go.

Don't look for big

things, just do small

things with great

love... .The smaller the

thing, the greater must

 be our love.

Mother Teresa

From Wikiquote

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997), born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was an Albanian-born Indian citizen,

Roman Catholic Nun, and Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Contents

1 Quotes

2 Attributed

3 Misattributed

4 Quotes about Mother Teresa

5 External links

Quotes

Often I wonder what does really God get from me in this state — no faith, no love — not even in feelings. The other day I can't tell you how

 bad I felt. — There was a moment when I nearly refused to accept. — Deliberately I took the Rosary and very slowly and without even

meditating or thinking – I said it slowly and calmly. 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 . People say they are drawn closer to God- seeing my strong faith. – is this not deceiving

 people? Every time I have wanted to tell the truth – “that I have no faith” – the words just do not come – my mouth remains closed. – And yet I

still keep on smiling at God and all.

Letter to Bishop Lawrence Trevor Picachy (September 1962), as quoted in Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (2009) by Brian

Kolodiejchuk, 2009, p. 238 (http://books.google.com/books?

id=XDILw3N_jGoC&pg=PA238&dq=%22I+accept+whatever+He+gives+and+I+give+whatever+He+takes%22&hl=en&ei=3L9kTd-

KEISBlAffqen5Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22I%20accept%20whatever%20He%20gives%20an

ISBN 0307589234 ISBN 9780307589231

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Interview by Edward W. Desmond in TIME magazine (4 December 1989)

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through

meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.

Teresa, Mother; Dorothy S. Hunt (1987). Love, a fruit always in season: Daily meditations from the words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta

(http://books.google.com/books?id=GqcnHzdPwPcC). San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press. ISBN 9780898701678.

Holiness is not the luxury of the few; it is a simply duty, for you and for me, because Jesus has very clearly stated, "Be ye holy as my father in heaven is holy." So let us

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I think it is very beautiful

for the poor to accept

their lot, to share it with

the passion of Christ

 pray for each other that we grow in love for each other, and through this love become holy as Jesus wants us to be for he died out of love for us.

One day I met a lady who was dying of cancer in a most terrible condition. And I told her, I say, "You know, this terrible pain is only the kiss of Jesus — a sign that you

have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you." And she joined her hands together and said, "Mother Teresa, please tell Jesus to stop kissing me".

Address to the National Prayer Breakfast (3 February 1994) (http://www.ewtn.com/New_library/breakfast.htm) .

Unsourced variant or paraphrase: I think it is very good when people suffer. To me, that is like the kiss of Jesus.

But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if 

we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? ... By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even

her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The

father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to

use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.

 National Prayer Breakfast speech, Washington, D.C. (3 February 1994) (http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/abortion/ab0039.html) .

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Quoted by Malcolm Muggeridge in Something Beautiful for God (http://books.google.com/books?

id=irO7hAQLmsMC&q=%22The+biggest+disease+today+is+not+leprosy+or+tuberculosis+but+rather+the+feeling+of+being+unwanted%22&pg=P 

(1971)

Attributed

We are misunderstood, we are misrepresented, we are misreported. We are not nurses, we are not doctors, we are not teachers, we are not

social workers. We are religious, we are religious, we are religious.

As quoted in Angelo Devananda, Daily Prayers with Mother Teresa (Fount, 1987), p. 91

From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day.

Remarks to Mengistu Haile Mariam during the 1984-85 Ethiopian famine, as quoted by Dawit Wolde Giorgis in Red Tears: War,

 Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia, (The Red Sea Press Inc. 1989), p. 213

I've never seen the poor people being so familiar with their head of state as they were with her. It was a beautiful lesson for me.

On meeting Michèle Duvalier, quoted by Christopher Hitchens in The Missionary Position (http://books.google.com/books?

id=PTgJIjK67rEC&pg=PA11&dq=%22I+think+it+is+very+beautiful+for+the+poor+to+accept+their+lot%22) , (Verso, 1995), page

5

I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the

suffering of the poor people.

As quoted by Christopher Hitchens in The Missionary Position (http://books.google.com/books?

id=PTgJIjK67rEC&pg=PA11&dq=%22I+think+it+is+very+beautiful+for+the+poor+to+accept+their+lot%22) , (Verso, 1995), page

11

I do not know anything about Charles Keating's work or his business or the matters you are dealing with. I only know he has been kind and generous to God's poor, and

always ready to help whenever there was a need... Whenever someone asks me to speak to a judge, I always tell them to pray, to look into [their] heart, and to do what

Jesus would do in that circumstance. And this is what I am asking of you, your Honor.

Letter to Judge Lance Ito, requesting clemency for Charles Keating (January 18 1992), as quoted by Christopher Hitchens in The Missionary Position(http://books.google.com/books?id=PTgJIjK67rEC&pg=PA11&dq=%22I+think+it+is+very+beautiful+for+the+poor+to+accept+their+lot%22) , (Verso, 1995),

 page 67

Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. 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.

As quoted in Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (1998) by John Templeton, p. 448

If I ever become a Saint — I surely be one of "darkness". I will continually be absent from Heaven — to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

As quoted in Mother Teresa : Come Be My Light (2007) by Brian Kolodiejchuk 

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love....The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

As quoted in Mother Teresa : Come Be My Light (2007) by Brian Kolodiejchuk 

Misattributed

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If 

you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be

forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is

between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

The non-religious original is known as The Paradoxical Commandments, published as such by Kent M. Keith, student activist, in 1968.

Quotes about Mother Teresa

I could go on and on, filling page after page with dense examples of disasters and crises where Mother Teresa had had no involvement whatsoever. For me, a Calcuttan,

 born and bred, it does not come as surprise, as I know her order has no infrastructure - indeed it had never been her intention to create an infrastructure for such work, as

she had frequently said, 'I'm not a social worker.' But what I find somewhat disturbing is that she remained inactive when children were hurt or killed, or were at the risk of 

 being orphaned ... this did not sit comfortably with her 'Child First' philosophy. But then, for her the unborn child was far more important than the actual child. Having

gone through hundreds of her speeches I have wondered, when compared to the unborn child if the actual child mattered to her at all.

Aroup Chatterjee (1998), Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict 

She is truly a living saint. She serves as a source of inspiration for me to this day... She is unique in that all her requests for assistance are always approved. No one can say

no to Mother Teresa.