Mother Teresa Quotes

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.

I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

Now the only way you can serve God on earth is by serving others.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

Doing Good Is My Religion

Go forth Monks and bring happiness to the many.

My faith is central to everything I do. My faith position is a Good Samaritan position of trying to watch out for the other person.

The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need. Ask how you can better love your brothers and sisters. Then you will find peace.

For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.

Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That's my punch list everyday.

You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped.

Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.