Mother Teresa Quotes

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

For the first time in this 11 years--I have come to love the darkness--for I believe now that it is a part, a very, very small part of Jesus' dakness and pain on earth. You have taught me to accept it [as] a "spiritual side of 'your work'"... (Mother Teresa, quoated in Kolodiejchuk, p. 208).

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.