Mother Teresa

“I believe that we are not real social workers. We may be doing social work in the eyes of the people, but we are really contemplatives in the heart of the world.”

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.”

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.”

“I don’t want you to give me from your abundance, I want that you give me until it hurts.”

“If we are not willing to give whatever it takes to do good to one another, sin is still in us.”

“It is not enough for us to say: "I love God," but I also have to love my neighbor.”

“We have been created in His image for greater things, to love and to be loved.”

“What I can do, you cannot. What you can do, I cannot. But together we can do something beautiful for God.”

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

“I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.”

“By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world.”

“I am everything. Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.”

“When you do that, there is joy, unity and love.”

“I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?”

“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”

“I try 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.”

“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”

“We are misunderstood, we are misrepresented, we are misreported. We are not nurses, we are not doctors, we are not teachers, we are not social workers. We are religious, we are religious, we are religious.”

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set.”

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”

“We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.”

“I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.”

“Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor.”

“If I ever become a Saint — I surely be one of "darkness". I will continually be absent from Heaven — to light the light of those in darkness on earth.”