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
At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.
When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.
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.
Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
My secret is simple -- I pray.
If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.
Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.
I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.