There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts

Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.

God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold.

What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.

In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Teresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.'

You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably.

You [priests] are called 'another Christ.'

We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.

Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

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.

God speaks in the silence of the heart

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.

Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.

Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy.

The family that prays together stays together, and if they stay together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And works of love are always works of peace.

Look at the cross and you will know what one soul means to Jesus.