Mother Teresa quotes for inspiration

“The fruit of silence is prayer; the fruit of prayer is faith; the fruit of faith is love; the fruit of love is service; the fruit of service is peace.”

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

“Do ordinary things with extraordinary love,” she often said, according to a priest who knew her through her Missionaries of Charity.

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love,” she also said in the lecture.

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do,” she said in her Nobel Peace Prize lecture in 1979.

“We fear the future because we are wasting the today,” she wrote in Where There is Love, There is God.

“I do not agree with the big way of doing things. To us, what matters is an individual,” she wrote.