Lately I have read a short biography on Mother Teresa. For some reason she has been a special icon in my mind, but mysteriously I have never really divelged into her life's history. The other day I bought two books of her quotes. I find her very inspiring. I especially find it touching how she started her program with nothing---just walking the streets helping needs as she saw them. Eventualy people seen she was motivated by love and others joined her fight to alleviate poverty as a labor of love. I believe by her death their was 800 missions that she was responsible for. Anyways you need to read that for yourself but Study some of these quotes and compare them with verses from the Love chapter 1 Corinthians 13. Then look at those around you and see how does all this apply to your everyday life.
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
Boy, there is a lot of quotable, (or memorizable) quotes in there. I'd like to print them off and have a poster made; like on a old scroll type of background.
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