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Posted on Oct 23, 2008 under Advocate, Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian Roman Catholic nun, Bharat Ratna, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, Calcutta, Helpless, Humanitarian, India, Kolkata, M, Malcolm Muggeridge, Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, Poor, Something Beautiful for God | 1 CommentA compilation of love quotes and famous sayings by Mother Teresa.
1. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
2. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
3. The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
4. It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.
5. Love is repaid by love alone!
6. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
7. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
8. Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor.
9. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
10. Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other–it doesn’t matter who it is– and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
11. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
12. Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
13. What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
14. If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
15. It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
16. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Mother Teresa (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997), born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity’s expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries.
By the 1970s she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary, and book, Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children’s and family counselling programs, orphanages, and schools.
She has been praised by many individuals, governments and organizations; however, she has also faced a diverse range of criticism. These include objections by various individuals and groups, including Christopher Hitchens, Michael Parenti, Aroup Chatterjee, Vishva Hindu Parishad, against the proselytizing focus of her work including a strong stance against abortion, a belief in the spiritual goodness of poverty and alleged baptisms of the dying. Several medical journals also criticised the standard of medical care in her hospices and concerns were raised about the opaque nature in which donated money was spent.
Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.
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Famous Sayings by Mother Teresa
1. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
2. Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
3. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
4. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
5. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
6. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
7. Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
8. Peace begins with a smile.
9. The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
10. There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
