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

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

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

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

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

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

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

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

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.

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

I think I’m more difficult than critical.

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

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

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

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

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

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

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don’t know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

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.

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

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

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

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.

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

–  Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Born – August 26, 1910, Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Died – September 5, 1997, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.