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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

Country India
Born Saturday, 27 August 1910
Category Social Activists
Quotes 306

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Mother Teresa, a legend in her own life time who devoted her life to loving and caring of those persons to whom nobody was prepared to look after. She set up The Missionaries of Charity, Nirmal Hriday, home for lepers, orphans and abandoned children. The work of Mother Teresa is spread all over the world today.

Quotes by Mother Teresa

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“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.” Uncategorized
“The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.” Uncategorized
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Uncategorized
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it Uncategorized
If you can't feed a 100 children, feed just one. Uncategorized
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace. Uncategorized
Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing. Uncategorized
I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery. Uncategorized
It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy. Uncategorized
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. Uncategorized
Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well. Uncategorized
Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness. Uncategorized
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. Uncategorized
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. Uncategorized
A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God’s attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her. Uncategorized
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. Uncategorized
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world. Uncategorized
Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me. Uncategorized
esus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. Uncategorized
You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. Uncategorized