Mother Teresa
Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu[6] (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒiu]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta,[7] was an Albanian-Indian[4] Roman Catholic nun and missionary.[8] She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.
In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. It also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as orphanages and schools. Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, and also profess a fourth vow – to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor."[9]
Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and canonized by Pope Francis.
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”
“Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.”
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
“Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.”
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
“A life not lived for others is not a life.”
“To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.”
“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
“The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”
“When you don't have anything, then you have everything.”
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
“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?”
“Live simply so others may simply live.”
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
“Peace begins with a smile..”
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“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.”