Mother Teresa (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997)
Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun who devoted her life to helping India’s poor, especially those living in Kolkata India formerly known Calcutta. She also awarded as Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1979 by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Mother Teresa has been declared a saint in a canonization Mass held by Pope Francis in the Vatican last September 4, 2016. The canonization attended with thousand of pilgrims who devoted Mother Teresa.
Below is the collection of Mother Teresa’s inspirational and influential quotes:
“Life is a challenge, we must take it.”
“Everything that is not given is lost.”
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.”
“If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
“To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
“Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.
“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
“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.””
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