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
Together we can do great things.
In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.
If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?
There is no greater sickness in the world today than the lack of love.
Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.
Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.
And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful,
Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.
Stay very close to Our Lady. If you do this, you can do great things for God and the good of people.
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.
Life is a challenge, we must take it.