Mother Theresa

Here are some great quotes from Mother Theresa that I like.  Hope they inspire you. :)

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”

“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”

“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”

“If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.”

“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”

“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”

“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.”

“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”

“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.”

“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. ”

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

“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”

“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

Amen!  She truly was quite brilliant. :)