Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Mother Earth is not flat!

A mother's love is the treasury of our childhood; the star tha guides our future; the gift of life itself.

So many signatures for such a small heart.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.

You can do no great things, just small things with great love.

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

I'm just an average guy. I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson either.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that missing drop.

My mother loved children

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God --the rest will be given.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.