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
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.
I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
People everywhere are the same; they are all people to be loved. They are all hungry for love.
To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them but that they carry with them love, peace and joy. That they become the sunshine of God's love to our people, the hope of eternal happiness and the burning flame of love wherever they go. That they become carriers of God's love. That they be able to give what they have received. For they have received not to keep, but to share.
If you cannot feed one hundred hungry people, then just feed one really well.
It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.
I have never found a problem with people from different religions praying together. What I have found is that people are just hungry for God, and be they Christian or Muslim we invite them to pray with us.
These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers...
People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.
Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!
People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.