Mother Teresa Quotes

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

We come to love those we serve. If we choose to begin to serve the Master out of even a glimmer of faith, we will begin to know Him. We will come to know His purposes for the people we serve for Him. Even when they do not accept our offer to serve them, we will feel His appreciation if we persist.

God put us on this earth with the purpose of loving.

We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves God, he has reached that point where he doth serve himself best, and enjoys himself most. It is man's honour, it is man's joy, it is man's heaven, to live unto God.

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

Our ultimate aim in life is not to be healthy, wealthy, prosperous, or problem free. Our ultimate aim in life is to bring glory to God.

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

If a guy were dating my daughter but didn't want to spend the gas money to come pick her up or refused to buy her dinner because it cost too much, I would question whether he were really in love with her In the same way, I question whether many American churchgoers are really in love with God because they are so hesitant to do anything for Him." Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.

I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.