Mother Teresa is one of my favorites and always will be. I found her to be compassionate and loving among many other things.
Someone who can love a stranger the way she did is just amazing. She was a remarkable and compelling woman. We should also look at the lives of the Saints and find inspiration from their lives, and then try to use some of what they might have said or did, in our own lives somehow.
Here are some wonderful things she spoke about:
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
“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.”
“Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. “
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”
“I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. “
“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
“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. “
This last one, as short as it is, should speak loudly to a lot of us, and it taught me a lot about finding God in the still of it all. I hope you like these.
*cross posted and then re-edited from my blog.
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August 10, 2006 at 8:27 am
Teresa is one of my favorites too. I’m not Catholic (but I am catholic). I too find such inspiration in people like Mother Teresa - and anyone who reflects the true light of Christ. God bless her and God bless you - what a wonderful post! You too are “a little pencil in the hand of God”
August 13, 2006 at 11:08 pm
Thank you! God bless you too.
August 13, 2006 at 11:14 pm
art:
“Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will use my Shift-key!”
;o)
November 29, 2006 at 7:27 am
good site