Mother Teresa

Country India
Born Saturday, 27 August 1910
Category Social Activists
Quotes 306
Mother Teresa, a legend in her own life time who devoted her life to loving and caring of those persons to whom nobody was prepared to look after. She set up The Missionaries of Charity, Nirmal Hriday, home for lepers, orphans and abandoned children. The work of Mother Teresa is spread all over the world today.
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“Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.” Uncategorized
“He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.” Uncategorized
“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.” Uncategorized
“One filled with joy preaches without preaching.” Uncategorized
“In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.” Uncategorized
“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.” Uncategorized
“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.” Uncategorized
“People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered: Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.” Uncategorized
“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.” ` Uncategorized
“If I look at the mass I will never act.” Uncategorized
“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.” Uncategorized
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody” Uncategorized
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor . . . Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.” Uncategorized
“Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.” Uncategorized
“Do small things, with great love.” Uncategorized
“The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.” Uncategorized
“We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.” Uncategorized
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action” Uncategorized
“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.” Uncategorized
“We are all pencils in the hand of God.” Uncategorized