Other's quotes, truth's from my heart...

MOTHER TERESA QUOTE'S...beautiful truisms!

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing.
It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen,
for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

If you are humble nothing will touch you,
neither praise nor disgrace,
because you know what you are.

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure
as long as you have done your best.

There is only one God and He is God to all;
therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God.
I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu,
a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.

If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.

We can do no great things;
only small things with great love.

When a poor person dies of hunger,
it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her.
It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to
give that person what he or she needed.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen,
for God speaks in the silence of the heart . . .

It is not enough for us to say: "I love God," but I also have to love my neighbor.
St. John says that you are a liar if you say you love God
and you don't love your neighbor.
How can you love God whom you do not see,
if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live?

I see God in every human being.
When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself.
Is it not a beautiful experience?

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

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.

There is a terrible hunger for love.
We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness.
We must have the courage to recognize it.
The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.
But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom.
It is not a mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom.
There is no television here, no this, no that.
But we are perfectly happy.

If we pray, we will believe;
If we believe, we will love.
If we love, we will serve.

You and I, we are the Church, no?
We have to share with our people.
Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing.
Jesus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.Give a glass of water, you give it to me.
Receive a little child, you receive me.
Clear.

Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.

Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people 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 them peace and joy.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

If you cannot feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Where there is great love,
there are always great miracles

We know that whatever we do is simply a droplet in the ocean.
But if that droplet were missing, the ocean would be lacking.

"WE USED THE QUOTE BELOW ON OUR WEDDING INVITATION":

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

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Be the living expression of God's kindness:
kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

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.

Peace begins with a smile.

There is no greater sickness in the world today than the lack of love.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

QUOTE'S FROM KAHLIL GIBRAN...meaningful maxims!

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.