Mother Teresa Quotes

We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.

Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.

It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them.

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.

How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!

Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.

To know and experience what God can do, we must first realize and acknowledge what we cannot do. We must get our eyes off of ourselves and our limited ability, and totally onto Him and His infinite power.

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.