Mutter Teresa / Mother Teresa Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Mutter Teresa / Mother Teresa:

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Pope John Paul II

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

Saint Ambrose

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Pope John Paul II

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Saint Augustine

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

St. Jerome

During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.

Edith Stein

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Francis of Assisi

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Saint Augustine

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

Francis of Assisi

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

St. Jerome

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Saint Augustine

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

Saint Bernard

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

Edith Stein

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Saint Augustine

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

Saint Ambrose

One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.

Saint Ignatius

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Pope John Paul II

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Francis of Assisi

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Pope John Paul II

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Saint Ignatius

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

Saint Ambrose

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

Joan of Arc

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.

Francis of Assisi

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Saint Augustine

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

Saint Augustine

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Francis of Assisi

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Saint Augustine

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

St. Jerome

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Saint Teresa of Avila

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

Saint Augustine

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Saint Augustine

I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.

Saint Ignatius