Mother Teresa Quotes

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

God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.

The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.

Another way Christ affects us is by inspiring our gratitude. He left the glories of heaven in order to become our Savior, and when we recognize that sacrifice, we are filled with thankfulness and praise.

They lose nothing who gain Christ.

Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and sadness of the world that Buddha's eyes close out is the pain and sadness of the world that the eyes of Jesus close in.

The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

Look at His adorable face. Look at His glazed and sunken eyes. Look at His wounds. Look Jesus in the Face. There, you will see how He loves us.

Pain is the kiss of Christ.

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you?

The cross of Jesus Christ represents the intersection of God's love and God's holiness.

If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

Every call of Christ leads into death.

Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.

When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.

Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil torments of the devil come upon me: only let me attain to Jesus Christ.

Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, 'Salvation is free, but not cheap.' It cost Jesus His life.

Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins; He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.