I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.

— Mother Teresa

I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

— Mother Teresa

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

— Mother Teresa

I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.

— Mother Teresa

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

— Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

— Mother Teresa

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.

— Mother Teresa

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

— Mother Teresa

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

— Mother Teresa

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.

— Mother Teresa