Saint Mother Teresa, born as Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, was an Albanian Catholic nun who moved to India; where she founded the Missionaries of Charity. Mother Teresa worked tirelessly for the poor around the world. She is the patron saint of World Youth Day, the Missionaries of Charity, and co-patron of the Archdiocese of Calcutta. Her feast day is September 5th.
1. Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
2. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
3. If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.
4. Live simply so others may simply live.
8. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
9. Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.
10. Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
11. Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
12. People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
13. Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
14. We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
15. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
16. Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
2. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
3. If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.
4. Live simply so others may simply live.
5. If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.
6. Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
7. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. 8. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
9. Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.
10. Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
11. Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
12. People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
13. Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
14. We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
15. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
16. Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
17. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
18. The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
19. We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.
20. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
3 BONUS Quotes to Remember:
18. The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
19. We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.
20. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
3 BONUS Quotes to Remember:
1. Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
2. Work without love is slavery.
3. Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.
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