Mother Teresa Quotes

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

A healthy soul is whole and integrated. It is connected to God. A person with a healthy soul is at peace with God, with himself, and with other people.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

One of the tenets in Quaker meditation is that you 'go inside to greet the light.' I am interested in this light that's inside greeting the light that's outside.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.

Like any other spiritual transformation or renewal, conversion must begin with an honest and a sincere admission that we need God's trans-formative power in our lives to achieve any real change, no matter the perspective from which we might begin.

Most Christians never associate joy with repentance. But repentance is actually the mother of all joy in Jesus. Without it, there can be no joy. Yet, any believer who walks in repentance will be flooded with the joy of the Lord.

Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward the Lord. If we look only at ourselves, with our own limitations and sins, we quickly give way to sadness and discouragement. But if we keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, then our hearts are filled with hope, our minds are washed n the light of truth, and we come to know the fullness of the Gospel with all is promise and life.

When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not try to pull us away from the many events, activities, and people that make up our lives. . . . He asks us to shift the point of gravity, to relocate the center of our attention, to change our priorities. Jesus does not speak about a change of activities, a change in contacts, or even a change of pace. He speaks about a change of heart.

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life.