Mother Teresa Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Happiness, Happy, Faith

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

• A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Giving, Joy

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

• One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

  Mother Teresa

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1990). “Total Surrender”

• Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Joy, World

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.25, New World Library

• Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Gratitude, Joy, Problem

• Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, War

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

• Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hands, Hunger For Love

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

• Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions. These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents, and have grown up so full of love and joy!

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Couple, Home

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.98, Image

• The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.

  Mother Teresa

  Christmas, Jesus, Heart

• Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved... To love a person without any conditions, without any expectations. Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace. To love, it is necessary to give. To give, it is necessary to be free from selfishness.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Great Love, Expectations

• No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Tired, Joy

• Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

  Mother Teresa

  Sacrifice, Self, Clothes

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy!

  Mother Teresa

  Joy

• We are at Jesus' disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work in the street, if he wants you to clean the toilets all day, that's all right, everything is all right. We must say, "I belong to you. You can do whatever you like." And this ..is our strength, and this is the joy of the Lord.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Sick, Joy

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

• Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power.

  Mother Teresa

  Happiness, Peace, Laughter

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give the sick, the way you lift a dying man, the way you feed a baby, the way you teach a dull child, the way you give medicine to a sufferer of leprosy, the joy with which you smile at your own at home - all this is God's love in the world today.

  Mother Teresa

  Baby, Children, Home

• Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Past, Joy

• If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

  Mother Teresa

  Eye, Worry, Shining

• I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Strength, Home

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

• True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Pain, Love Is

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.27, New World Library

• Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile. Joy shows from the eyes. It appears when we speak and walk. It cannot be kept closed inside us. It reacts outside. Joy is very infectious.

  Mother Teresa

  Eye, Feel Better, Joy

• It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another- not in the school, not from the teacher, but from you. It is very important that you share with your children the joy of that smile. There will be misunderstandings; every family has its cross, its suffering. Always be the first to forgive with a smile. Be cheerful, be happy.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Teacher, Children

• Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

  Mother Teresa

  Joy, Sorrow, Forget

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.137, New World Library

• Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Strength, Real Joy, True Joy

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

• Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.

  Mother Teresa

  Moving, Generosity, Joy

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.323, Image

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