Mother Teresa is also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta was a well-known personality of India. In her whole life, she served homeless, hungry and naked people around the world. The legend was born on 26th August 1910 was an Albanian-Indian Romanian-Catholic nun and missionary lady who founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, in 2012 which consisted of more than 4,500 sisters and was active in 133 countries whose aim to run homes for people dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children’s and family counselling programmes; orphanages; and schools.
After having lived in Macedonia for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. She has done so many things in her whole life, it is next to impossible to describe all of them in this article. But some of them are described here read on to know about them:-
Mother Teresa said “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.”
In 1982, at the height of the Siege of Beirut, Mother Teresa saved 37 children stuck in a front line hospital by brokering a temporary cease-fire between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas.
Mother Teresa travelled to assist and minister to the hungry in Ethiopia, radiation victims at Chernobyl, and earthquake victims in Armenia. In 1991, Mother Teresa returned for the first time to her homeland and opened a Missionaries of Charity Brothers home in Tirana, Albania.
By 1996, Mother Teresa was operating 517 missions in more than 100 countries. Over the years, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity grew from twelve to thousands serving the “poorest of the poor” in 450 centres around the world. The first Missionaries of Charity home in the United States was established in the South Bronx, New York; by 1984 the congregation operated 19 establishments throughout the country. Mother Teresa was fluent in five languages: Bengali, Albanian, Serbian, English, and Hindi.
On 19 October 2003, she was beatified as “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta”. A second miracle was credited to her intercession by Pope Francis, in December 2015, paving the way for her to be recognised as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Her canonization has been scheduled for 4 September 2016.
And today at the Vatican City of Rome the lady is declared as the Saint by Pope Francis at a canonization ceremony, around 1,00,000 citizens and people around the world jammed at the ceremony.
Inspirational, life Quotes by Mother Teresa
Here are the Quotes by Mother Teresa:-
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
Joy is strength.
― Mother Teresa
The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.
― Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother Teresa
Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.
― Mother Teresa
Our 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
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
― Mother Teresa
If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.
― Mother Teresa
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
― Mother Teresa
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
― Mother Teresa
Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus – a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.
― Mother Teresa
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?
― Mother Teresa
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.
― Mother Teresa
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
― Mother Teresa
People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
― Mother Teresa
I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.
― Mother Teresa
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
― Mother Teresa
In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
― Mother Teresa
There’s nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there’s some one fighting with you.
― Mother Teresa
A life not lived for others is not a life.
― Mother Teresa
If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
― Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa
When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, “What can we do to promote world peace?” She answered “Go home and love your family.
― Mother Teresa
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
― Mother Teresa
Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics:
—missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe.
—contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation.
—universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor.”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.”
― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
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.
― Mother Teresa
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.
– Mother Teresa
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 Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
– Mother Teresa
Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them…For as long as you are green, you can grow.
― Mother Teresa
Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
― Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
–Mother Teresa
Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.
― Mother Teresa
I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.
― Mother Teresa
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