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
I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.
My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.
The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.
Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.
No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
Each time people come into contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.
I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.
It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.
By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion.
To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.