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Mother Teresa Quotes - Page 11

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Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life, Adventure, Dare

"Life Is". Poem by Mother Teresa, www.beliefnet.com.

Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.

Religious, Faithful, Littles

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

Prayer, Hands, Love And Kindness

Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.

Broken, Massage, Holy

Like her [Mary], let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace when, at the Annunciation, she received Jesus. Like her. we too become full of grace every time we receive Holy Communion. It is the same Jesus whom she received and whom we receive at Mass. As soon as she received Him. she went with haste to give Him to John. For us also. As soon as we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, let us go in haste to give Him to our sisters, to our poor, to the sick, to the dying, to the lepers, to the unwanted, and the unloved. By this we make Jesus present in the world today.

Jesus, Giving, Sick

"Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

Years, May, Self Centered

If I look at the mass I will never act.

Apathy, Looks, Storytelling

I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.

Mother, Regret, Real

I have said often, and I am sure of it, that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is abortion. If a mother can kill her own child, what is there to stop you and me from killing each other? The only one who has the right to take life is the The One who has created it.

Mother, Children, Abortion

It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbour. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live.

Mother, Liars, Love You

Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.

Jesus, Loneliness, Mean

Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

Love, Sad, Hurt

Teresa (Mother), Roger (frère) (1986). “Meditations on the Way of the Cross”, Burns & Oates

There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love

Small Acts, Great Love, Done

Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.

Gratitude, Joy, Problem

God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

Compassion, People, Giving

Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

Mother, Real, Yoga

Life isn't about the cherished moments it is also about the hard ones. Just knowing each day that you will arise with the bright shining sun in your eyes. And end with the cool breeze upon your face as you slowly reflect the day that passed by.

Eye, Knowing, Shining

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Jealous, People, Finding Happiness

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

Life, Smile, Thoughtful

You can't do God's work without suffering.

Suffering

We will never know how much just a simple smile will do.

Simple, Simple Smile, Know How

Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.11, New World Library

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Heart, Hunger For Love, Silence

Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.

Home, Love Is, Saint

Together we can do great things.

Together We Can, Together, Great Things

We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.

Successful, Faithful, Being Faithful

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