Mother Teresa1910–1997We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God’s love, the hope of eternal happiness.
It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Interview by Edward W. Desmond in TIME magazine (4 December 1989)- Statement of 1977, as quoted in Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2011) by Susan Ratcliffe, p. 373
