Top 46 Mother Teresa Prayer Quotes
#1. Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
Mother Teresa
#3. All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.
Mother Teresa
#4. In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
Mother Teresa
#5. The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything.
Mother Teresa
#6. Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
Mother Teresa
#7. Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
Mother Teresa
#8. Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.
Mother Teresa
#9. In reality, there is only one true prayer, only one substantial prayer: Christ himself. There is only one voice which rises above the face of the earth, the voice of Christ. Prayer is oneness with Christ.
Mother Teresa
#10. Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it
Mother Teresa
#11. Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch..
Mother Teresa
#12. You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.
Mother Teresa
#13. If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.
Mother Teresa
#14. The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.
Mother Teresa
#15. Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: 'What will convert America and save the world?' My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer.
Mother Teresa
#16. Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.
Mother Teresa
#18. Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
Mother Teresa
#19. We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God
Mother Teresa
#20. In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.
Mother Teresa
#21. May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
Mother Teresa
#22. If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.
Mother Teresa
#23. Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.
Mother Teresa
#24. Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
#25. Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we can't imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer?
Gary Haugen
#27. I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.
Mother Teresa
#28. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service and the fruit of service is peace.
Mother Teresa
#29. Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.
Mother Teresa
#30. The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.
Mother Teresa
#31. My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.
Mother Teresa
#32. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.
Mother Teresa
#33. Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.
Mother Teresa
#34. The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace
Mother Teresa
#35. The fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace, and peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
#36. Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!
Mother Teresa
#37. Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
Mother Teresa
#38. We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved you
Mother Teresa
#39. God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.
Mother Teresa
#40. Prayer without action is no prayer at all. You have to do your work as if everything depends on you. Then leave the rest to God." Mother Teresa
Stephen J. Young
#41. Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.
Mother Teresa
#42. Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls everywhere and peace on earth. We cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the difference it will make in our world
Mother Teresa
#45. At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.
Mother Teresa
#46. When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.
Mother Teresa
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