A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.

— Mother Teresa

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

— Mother Teresa

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

— Mother Teresa

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

— Mother Teresa

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

— Mother Teresa

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

— Mother Teresa

At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern.

— Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

— Mother Teresa

Be happy at the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

— Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared-for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

— Mother Teresa