Mother Teresa Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• 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

  Prayer, Work, Knows

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image

• May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Fall, Heart

• 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

  Inspirational, Prayer, Heart

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

• Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Action

• I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Believe, Used

• Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.4, New World Library

• My mother and sister must be very happy to be home with God, and I am sure their love and prayers are always with me. When I go home to God, for death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Prayer, Home

• The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Silence

• If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Doubt

• I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Believe, Answers

• 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

  Mother, Religious, Jesus

• I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Peace, Prayer

• The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace

  Mother Teresa

  Inspiring, Peace, Prayer

• Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Silence, Soul

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.8, New World Library

• Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever a person needs in the moment. The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time ... Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs ... We feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but that ocean would be less without that drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Ocean, People

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

• We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Love Is

• Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Prayer, House

• 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

  Jesus, Prayer, Blessed

• People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Prayer, Couple

• More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer

• 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

  Prayer, Heart, Silence

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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

  Prayer, Believe, Love You

• 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

  Prayer, Book, Weapons

• It is not possible to engage in the direct apostolate without being a soul of prayer. We must be aware of oneness with Christ, as he was aware of oneness with his Father. Our activity is truly apostolic only insofar as we permit him to work in us and through us with his power, with his desire, with his love.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Father, Oneness

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

• 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

  Jesus, Prayer, Simple

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