I'm reading a couple books about Mother Teresa. What a saint. Here are some thoughts and sayings from her:
1. "Without love there can be no happiness in the house, no peace in the world. A work of love is a work of peace".
2. "Be smiling when you visit the poor. Even if you have nothing to give, smile to them; a smile costs nothing".
3. "Whatever misery, whatever suffering you have seen and experienced during the day, never go to bed without the joy of the Risen Christ".
4. Mother Teresa found a man in the gutter, eaten by worms. She took him home and spent 3 hours cleaning his wounds. Just before he died there, he said, "I have lived like an animal in the street, but I'm going die like an angel, loved and cared for".
5. When Mother Teresa was sick once with a high fever she says "I was in delirium; I went to Saint Peter, but he did not let me enter saying, "There are no slums in heaven"....In my anger I said, "Very well, I will fill heaven with slum people and you will be forced to let me in"....
6. "I am a pencil in God's hand".
7. "If I had passed by when I saw and smelt that woman who was eaten by rats ---her face, her legs. But I returned, picked her up and took her to a hospital. If I had not, the Society would have died. Feelings of repugnance are human but if I see the face of Jesus in His most distressing disguise, I will be holy".
8. "A clean heart can see God. And we should see God in each other."
9. "Charity begins today. Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. Our work is for today, yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not come. We see a need, we go to meet it; at least, we do something about it".
10. "We love not in big things but in small things, with great love".
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