Mother Teresa Quotes

I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

Prayer is - a means of uniting us unto Himself.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

It is not possible to engage in the direct apostolate without being a soul of prayer. We must be aware of oneness with Christ, as he was aware of oneness with his Father. Our activity is truly apostolic only insofar as we permit him to work in us and through us with his power, with his desire, with his love.

Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer.... Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.

My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.

Prayer is - keeping company with God.

Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one.

Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Prayer is man's greatest power!

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

My joy in my life comes from my strength in my life and in my experience with God. That cannot be separated from football. It is all the same to me. It is one. I am one with it.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.