(Heb.
11:4)
Mother Teresa
Died
5th September 1997
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every
hand.
People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
Intense love does not measure it just gives.
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than
work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only
today. Let us begin.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with
great love.
I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he
didn't trust me so much.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can
be no more hurt, only more love.
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is
being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical
diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair,
and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are
dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a
little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty --
it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality.
There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and
always start with the person nearest you.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are
truly endless.
Joy is a net by which you catch souls.
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked
and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and
uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own
homes to remedy this kind of poverty. The poor you may have
right in your own family. Find them. Love them.
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your
family!
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and
obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real,
devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you,
neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If
you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a
saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.
Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass.
God does not change. Patience achieves everything
I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one
another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me?
Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is
among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be
work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
If we pray, we will believe; if we believe, we will love; if we love, we
will serve.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
‘Friend, remember that it is better to read 1 quote 10 times
(meditatively) than to read 10 quotes 1 time (superficially).’
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