Mother Teresa Quotes

Do you realize that God expects you to consider that you are actually working for Jesus Christ on your job?

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

I've always believed in God. I remember once a guy asked me what it was like to be self-employed. I said, I'm not self employed. I work for God. The pay is good; He works me hard.

Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

Know how to 'cling' to him in prayer, and then you will see the face of Christ more clearly in those whom you are called to serve.

Jesus did not always like the Apostles' way of acting, but by adapting himself to their temperament, praying for them to his father, giving them a holy example of conduct, he loved them, and that love changed them.

I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.

If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word.

It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will let you know something gradually over the years. And in that word from God you will find the inner place from which to live your life. Solitude is where spiritual ministry begins. That's where Jesus listened to God. That's where we listen to God.

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is.

Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

Workers for Christ are never to think, much less to speak, of failure in their work. The Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things; His Spirit is to be our inspiration; and as we place ourselves in His hands, to be channels of light, our means of doing good will never be exhausted. We may draw upon His fulness, and receive of that grace which has no limit.

The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.

Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.

Every day, no matter what I'm doing, I say, 'Lord, I'll do the best I can, and You do the rest.

Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.

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.

You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is going to do it, it is not you who is going to do it, but God. 'The peace of God that passeth all understanding'-He, through it all, 'will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus'.

Ask Jesus what he wants from you and be brave!