Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Words by Mother Teresa

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.

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. Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. 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. 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. 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. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy. 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. Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing. 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.

Top 10 Mother Teresa Quotes To Inspire You Today

# 10 “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

#9 “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.”

#8 “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

#7 “I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”

#6 “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

#5 “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

#4 “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”

#3 “Live simply so others may simply live.”

#2 “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”

#1 “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”

Mother Teresa Quotes About Love & Peace

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”

“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”

“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”

“Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.

Special prayers mark Mother Teresa's death anniversary

KOLKATA: Thousands of people from all walks of life Thursday paid homage to Mother Teresa on her 16th death anniversary with special prayers and masses in the eastern metropolis.

Nuns of missionaries of Charity, the catolic order founded by Mother Teresa to help the poorest of the poor, the infirm and the dying, held special prayers at their global headquarters Mother House.

Devotees thronged the central Kolkata building since dawn to offer floral tributes and prayers at Mother Teresa's grave.

People from rural areas were seen kneeling before the grave with candles in hand as they sang hymns in memory of Mother Teresa, who died Sep 5, 1997.

Remembrance programmes were held at various schools.

Mother Teresa -- born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia Aug 26, 1910, to an ethnic Albanian family — made Kolkata her home and workplace for 68 years since 1929.

She was given the Nobel Peace Price in 1979.

Mother Teresa as mystic and apostle of the ordinary

National Catholic Reporter March 5, 2011
by John L Allen Jr

ROME -- In the court of popular opinion, Mother Teresa – now Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, after her beatification in 2003 – is regarded as a heroic Saint of the Poor, perhaps the 20th century’s most compelling example of a radical option for the world’s most vulnerable and forgotten people. While that’s undeniably right, two of the world’s leading experts on Mother Teresa say, it also risks being reductive.

In a March 5 symposium at Rome’s Dominican-run Angelicum University, Missionaries of Charity Fr.
Brian Kolodiejchuk argued that Mother Teresa was also a great apostle of the ordinary, offering an
approach to love focused not on grand events or geopolitical movements but one-to-one human
relationships, beginning with those closest to her.
In that sense, Kolodiejchuk argued, her life is not only “admirable” but highly “imitable.”
A Canadian-born priest and General Superior of the Missionaries of Charity Fathers, Kolodiejchuk is
the postulator for Mother Teresa’s sainthood cause, meaning the official responsible for overseeing
the effort.

Dominican Fr. Paul Murrary, meanwhile, argued that on the basis of Mother Teresa’s private writings,
published only after her death, she now ranks not only as a friend of the poor, but as one of the
great mystics of the Catholic tradition, with an interior life “comparable in depth and intensity to St.
John of the Cross.”
Those private writings were collected as part of the beatification process, and had previously been
known only to a handful of spiritual directors and church authorities. They spoke not only of
mystical visions and revelations in the 1940s, but an inner darkness stretching over most of the
rest of her life and which led her even to question the existence of God.
We now know that Mother Teresa’s spiritual journey, Murray said, “was not one long unbroken
experience of bliss, with roses of consolation strewn along the way.” Instead, she lived with a sense
of “bewildering rejection and even complete abandonment,” as “her prayers were not heard and God
remained silent.”
The day on the Christian calendar that best captures Mother Teresa’s inner life, Murray said, is Good
Saturday, the day of the “great silence” of God in the tomb.

Both men spoke as part of events celebrating the 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa’s birth on
August 26, 2010. This spring, both the Angelicum and the Jesuit-run Gregorian University in Rome
are hosting a series of lectures dedicated to various aspects of her life and thought.
In response to an NCR query, Kolodiejchuk said that the process for the canonization of Mother
Teresa, meaning a formal declaration that she was a saint, is presently in a holding pattern awaiting
a miracle claim sufficiently strong to submit to Vatican scrutiny.

Rules require one miracle for beatification, and another for canonization. Kolodiejchuk said reports
of miracles “constantly” arrive at his office, and usually there are two or three sufficiently credible
to investigate. Yet to date, he said, none has passed muster.
“We have not received any case that has the clarity of what is exactly [is] the miraculous element,
proofs before and after the intercession, and the intercession – when was the prayer made, and to
Mother Teresa only,” he said.
In his presentation at the Angelicum, Kolodiejchuk said Mother Teresa insisted that love has to
begin with those closest to you. Changing the world, in that optic, is fundamentally about changing
human hearts one by one.
“She believed the world has never needed peace more than today, but she addressed it at a different
level,” Kolodiejchuk said. Her approach, he said, was based on “love and respect for each human
being.”
Social disorder, in her view, was a result of a lack of respect for individual persons, Kolodiejchuk
said.
You don’t have to go to slums of Calcutta, Kolodiejchuk suggested, to embrace Mother Teresa’s
model of charity. Instead, he said, it’s “within the reach of every Christian in every walk of life” –
beginning with those closest, including one’s spouse, children, friends, and neighbors.
“We don’t have to imitate what she did,” he said, “but we can do the ordinary things with love.”
Murray noted that a core theme in Mother Teresa’s writings, including the constitution she put
together for the Missionaries of Charity, was “silence.”

Among other things, Mother Teresa once captured the value of silence in a way that many
politicians, pundits, and even church leaders might do well to recall: “Silence can never be
corrected.”
He recalled that half in jest, Mother Teresa used to give a “business card” to the people she met. It
didn’t contain her title and contact information, however, but the core principles of her spirituality.
It began, Murray noted, with the line, “The fruit of silence is prayer.”
The card went on to refer to faith, love and service, but the core practice – the one which lays the
foundation for the others – is silence. In the wake of the revelation of Mother Teresa’s writings,
Murray said, that reference to “silence” takes on a whole new meaning.
It’s astounding, Murray said, that Mother Teresa “never spoke, not even once,” even to those closest
to her, about her inner agony. As a result, her inner spiritual drama was hidden during her lifetime.
Murray said that Mother Teresa talked about “five silences”:
Silence of the eyes
Silence of the ears
Silence of the mouth
Silence of the mind
Silence of the heart
Those five silences, Murray said, “are not limited to charity workers, those living with the poorest of
the poor.” Instead, it’s a mystical path open to all.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Last words of Mother Teresa

Here is some things that Mother Teresa said before her death.
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. Those who are materially poor can be very wonderful people.

One evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition. I told the Sisters: 'You take care of the other three; I will take care of the one who looks worse.' So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful smile on her face. She took hold of my hand, as she said one word only: 'Thank you' - and she died. I could not help but examine my conscience before her. And I asked: 'What would I say if I were in her place?' And my answer was very simple. I would have tried to draw a little attention to myself. I would have said: 'I am hungry, I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain,' or something. But she gave me much more - she gave me her grateful love. And she died with a smile on her face.

Then there was the man we picked up from the drain, half eaten by worms and, after we had brought him to the home, he only said, 'I have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die as an angel, loved and cared for.' Then, after we had removed all the worms from his body, all he said, with a big smile, was: 'Sister, I am going home to God' - and he died. It was so wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that without blaming anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel - this is the greatness of people who are spiritually rich even when they are materially poor.......

Life
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realise it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

A simple path

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

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.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

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.

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.

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. Jesus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me.

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her.

Mother Teresa Biography

Mother Teresa was born in Skopje (today the capital of Macedonia) on August 27, 1910. Her original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Her father, who was of Albanian descent, ran a small farm. At the age of twelve, while attending a Roman Catholic elementary school, she records that she knew she had a vocation to help the poor. She decided to train for missionary work, and a few years later made India her choice. At the age of eighteen she left the parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with a mission in Calcutta. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where in 1928 she took her initial vows as a nun.

From 1929 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1946 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she started an open-air school for homeless children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming from various church organisations, as well as from the municipal authorities. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work, and on October 7, 1950, she received permission to start her own order "The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. Today the order comprises some one thousand sisters and brothers in India, of whom a small number are non-Indian. Many have been trained as doctors, nurses and social workers, and are in a position to provide effective help for the slum population as well as undertaking relief work in connection with such natural catastrophes as floods, epidemics, famine and swarms of refugees.

Mother Teresa has fifty relief projects operating in India: these comprise work among slum-dwellers, children's homes, homes for the dying, clinics and a leper colony. The order has also spread to other countries, and undertakes relief work for the poorest of the poor in a number of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The order has also established itself in Italy, Great Britain, Ireland and the United States.

Mother Teresa's work has aroused considerable attention throughout the world, and she has received a number of awards and distinctions: in 1971 she received the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize, in 1972 the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding, and in 1979 the Balzan Prize for promoting peace and brotherhood among the nations.