Mother Teresa's quotes

on the family life

• So let us pray.  Where does this love begin?  In our own home.  How does it begin?  By loving one another.  But we cannot love one another unless we pray for prayer gives a clean heart.  Prayer – family that prays together, stays together and if you stay together, you will love one another as God loves you.  And the fruit of that prayer is love, joy, peace.  The fruit of prayer is deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love and the fruit of love is service and the fruit of service is peace.  And the world and you and I have never needed peace so much as today – all over the world terrible suffering, terrible hunger for love and we know what’s happening.
• "More and more people realize that unless we bring back prayer and love into the family we will never have peace."
• So bring prayer to your family, bring back again to your children.  Ask, teach them to pray for a child that prays is a happy child.  A family that prays is the united family.  We hear of so many broken families and … where? Why is this?  Because they never pray together.  They are never one in prayer … and we have forgotten that God loves us, that we have been created for greater things.  … we must experience love.
• “Love begins at home, and destruction and hatred begin at home also.”
• Let us bring Jesus in their families by consecrating them to the Sacred Heart, by teaching them to pray the Rosary, by bringing prayer into their lives.  Priests used to do that before so easily, used to come in the family and be with the family and pray with the family, consecrate the family to the Sacred Heart and this has to come back.  And I ask you to help us to consecrate the families to the Sacred Heart because if we bring Jesus back in their lives, we will bring peace, joy and holiness.