Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresaalso known as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, MC, was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje, then part of the Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire. After having lived in Macedonia for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life...
NationalityAlbanian
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth26 August 1910
CitySkopje, Macedonia
CountryAlbania
The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.
Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.
In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.
Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.
If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.
O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
It is not possible to engage in the direct apostolate without being a soul of prayer. We must be aware of oneness with Christ, as he was aware of oneness with his Father. Our activity is truly apostolic only insofar as we permit him to work in us and through us with his power, with his desire, with his love.
I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.
Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand...
Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.
It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.