Mother Theresa’s Life Changing Quotes | Quotes About Life

[Music] i know god won't give me anything i can't handle i just wish he didn't trust me so much [Music] every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a beautiful thing prayer is not asking prayer is putting oneself in the hands of god at his disposition and listening to his voice in the depth of our hearts be faithful in small things because it is in them that you strength lies 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 [Music] do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary what we need is to love without getting tired good works are links that form a chain of love loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty let us more and more insist on raising funds of love of kindness of understanding of peace money will come if we seek first the kingdom of god the rest will be given there are no great things only small things with great love happy are those i am a little pencil in the hand of a writing god who is sending a love letter to the world i do not pray for success i ask for faithfulness many people mistake our work for our vocation our vocation is the love of jesus i think i'm more difficult than critical [Music] sweetest lord make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation and its many responsibilities never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness unkindness or impatience the hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread [Music] i have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts there can be no more hurt only more love [Music] i want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor do you know your next door neighbor if we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other if you can't feed a hundred people then feed just one [Music] i tried to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money no i wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet i willingly cure him for the love of god god doesn't require us to succeed he only requires that you try live simply so others may simply live [Music] if we want a love message to be heard it has got to be sent out to keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it it is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters it is poverty to decide that the child must die so that you may live as you wish joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on so the children have very little time for their parents parents have very little time for each other and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do [Music] it is a kingly act to assist the fallen we think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry naked and homeless the poverty of being unwanted unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty we must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty [Music] i see somebody dying i pick him up i find somebody hungry i give him food he can love and be loved i don't look at his collar i don't look at his religion i don't look at anything every person whether he is hindu muslim or buddhist is my brother my sister [Music] the future is so much in the hands of god i find it much more easy to accept today because yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not come and i have only today we have been created for greater things to love and be loved i do not agree with the big way of doing things to us what matters is an individual let us touch the dying the poor the lowly and the unwanted according to the graces we have received let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand our life for poverties is necessary as the work itself only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love god better because of them spread love everywhere you go let no one ever come to you without leaving happier the success of love is in the loving it is not in the result of loving of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done peace begins with a smile there must be a reason why some people can afford to live well they must have worked for it i only feel angry when i see waste when i see people throwing away things that we could use there is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless i know god will not give me anything i can't handle i just wish that he didn't trust me so much in this life we cannot do great things we can only do small things with great love we need to find god and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness god is the friend of silence see how nature trees flowers grass grows in silence see the stars the moon and the sun how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls we ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean but the ocean would be less because of the missing drop joy is prayer joy strength joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls one of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody please choose the way of peace in the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread but that never can or never will justify the suffering pain and loss of life your weapons will cause even the rich are hungry for love for being cared for for being wanted for having someone to call their own love begins at home and it is not how much we do but how much love we put in that action the miracle is not that we do this work but that we are happy to do it [Music] god doesn't require us to succeed he only requires that you try let us always meet each other with smile for the smile is the beginning of love let us not be satisfied with just giving money money is not enough money can be got but they need your hearts to love them so spread your love everywhere you go every work of love done with a full heart brings people closer to god you can love all men perfectly if you love the one god and them all i have never been in a war before but i have seen famine and death i was asking myself what do they feel when they do this i don't understand it they are all children of god why do they do it i don't understand i believe god loves the world through us through you and me at the end of life we are going to be judged on the basis of our love for one another every time you smile at someone it is an action of love a gift to that person a beautiful thing i found the paradox that if i love until it hurts 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