Lenten Quotes

Quotes of Mother Theresa - Lenten Reflection.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.

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. 

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. 
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.  

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. 

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.  

Good works are links that form a chain of love. 

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.  

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. 

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. 

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 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 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. 

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

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.  

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. 

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. 
It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.  

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world. 

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.  
Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. 
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.  
Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.  

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. 

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. 

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. 

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

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

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

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. 
There are no great things, only small things with great love. 

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.  

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.