Teresa: "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

Teresa: "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."

Teresa: "Intense love does not measure, it just gives."

Teresa: "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."

Teresa: "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

Teresa: "We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."

Teresa: "One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."

Teresa: "The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."

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

Teresa: "Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."

Teresa: "Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."

Teresa: "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."

Teresa: "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

Teresa: "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."

Teresa: "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."

Teresa: "Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."

Teresa: "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

Teresa: "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."

Teresa: "Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."

Teresa: "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."

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

Teresa: "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."

Teresa: "Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."