I was researching quotes on love and service tonight, and obviously it pulled up Mother Teresa as the numero uno quotable person on the subject. I began to read pages of her quotes, and I found some that really are thought provoking, and inspiring. Some of these may be familiar to you, some may not. I hope all will inspire us to get to work. The world seems to be falling apart as quickly as the population is increasing, and I really think we're going to have to band together and love and serve more than we currently do. As beauty pageant cliche as this is... I really do wish for world peace.
"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."
"If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive."
"There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them."
"The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy."
"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."
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
"There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I’ve always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic. "
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
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