~ A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. ~ Mother Teresa
~ God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer. ~ Mother Teresa
~ If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~ Mother Teresa
~ God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it. ~ Mother Teresa
~ Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts; then it is real and pure. ~Mother Teresa
~ God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it. ~ Mother Teresa
~ Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. ~ Mother Teresa
~ Holiness is doing God’s will with a smile. ~Mother Teresa
~ Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved. ~ Mother Teresa
~ It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.” Philemon ~Mother 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. ~ Mother Teresa
~ To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. ~ Mother Teresa
~ I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one. ~ Mother Teresa
~ Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ~Mother Teresa
~ The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. ~ Mother Teresa
~ Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. ~ Blaise Pascal
~ The word ''Christianity'' is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
~ If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he has to say, and make fun of it. ~ Thomas Carlyle
~ A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
~ 2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change. ~ Douglas Adams
~ No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved. ~ John Knox
~ Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. ~ Phillips Brooks
~ 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. ~ Mother Teresa
~ Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
~ The dying Jesus is the evidence of God's anger toward sin; but the living Jesus is the proof of God's love and forgiveness. ~ Lorenz Eifert
~ Jesus died too soon. He would have repudiated His doctrine if He had lived to my age. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
~ If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
~ If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he wouldn't be able to stop throwing up. ~ Woody Allen
~ Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
~ Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
~ I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
~ Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him. ~ Sholem Asch
~ Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete. Christianity alone has felt that God, to be wholly God must be a rebel as well as a king. ~ G.K. Chesterton
~ To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living. ~ John Henry Newman
~ In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth – in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality. ~ Karl Barth
~ The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith. ~ Fyodor Dostoevski
~ The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. ~ Denis Diderot
~ If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. ~ Lenny Bruce
~ In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality. ~ Karl Barth
~ Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander the Great, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon; without science and learning, he shed more light on things human and divine than all philosophers and scholars combined; without the eloquence of school, he spoke such words of life as were never spoken before or since, and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator or poet; without writing a single line, he set more pens in motion, and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art, and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times. ~ Philip Schaff
