Mary Teresa Quotes & Sayings

My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random patterns, as we know from scientific evidence, on top of the numerous legends about faces of Jesus, or the Virgin Mary, or Mother Teresa, being seen on slices of toast, or pizzas, or patches of damp on a wall. This eagerness is enhanced if the pattern departs from randomness in the specific direction of being symmetrical. — Richard Dawkins

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em! — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the distressing guise of the poor. — Mother Teresa

If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me. — Mother Teresa

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death ... — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.' — Olivia Hussey

Love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry! — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away? — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Like Mary, let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace when, at the annunciation, she received Jesus. Like her, we too become full of grace every time we receive Holy Communion. It is the same Jesus whom she received and whom we receive at Mass. As soon as we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, let us go in haste to give Him to our sisters, to our poor, to the sick, to the dying, to the lepers, to the unwanted, and the unloved. By this we make Jesus present in the world today. — Mother Teresa

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. — Mother Teresa

if we want to love Jesus completely, ardently, and perfectly - as did Mother Teresa - then we need his Spirit of Love, and Mary Immaculate brings him to us. — Michael Gaitley

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie