VIDEO: Mother Teresa – 20th Century Humanitarian | Biography
A girl named Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu became the mother of the city Calcutta, later renamed Kolkata.
Mother Teresa, a catholic nun, who belied in Catholicism simply transcended the human barriers and became the mother of the needy, the poor, the hungry, and the homeless.
She received the Nobel peace prize in 1979 for her selfless charities in India. The Roman Catholic Church named her Saint Teresa of India in 2016. Here are some of Mother Teresa’s life-changing quotes to enlighten the path of your life.
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Teresa
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” – Mother Teresa
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” – Mother Teresa
“I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.” – Mother Teresa
“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.” – Mother Teresa
“ life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” – Mother Teresa
“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.” – Mother Teresa
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” – Mother Teresa
“Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.” – Mother Teresa
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” – Mother Teresa
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Teresa
“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.” – Mother Teresa
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” – Mother Teresa
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” – Mother Teresa
“God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa
“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.” – Mother Teresa
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” – Mother Teresa
“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.” – Mother Teresa
“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?” – Mother Teresa
. “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” – Mother Teresa
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Teresa
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” – Mother Teresa
“We fear the future because we are wasting today.” – Mother Teresa
“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.” – Mother Teresa
“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” – Mother Teresa
“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.” – Mother Teresa
“Work without love is slavery.” – Mother Teresa
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
