Mother Teresa Quotes

He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

Jesus recognized that love is greater than like.

I want women to love Jesus! That is what I would give every single thing I have for, every earthly good I've got. That is the greatest desire of my heart.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.

Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

Christian love is loving without counting the cost. This is the lesson of the Good Samaritan; this is the lesson of Jesus.

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”, Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom. Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.