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
We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.
What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.
Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.
I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'
Never Let Anyone Come to You Without Coming Away Better and Happier
We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time...
If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.
There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.
It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.
Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: "Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you.
Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy.