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1910–1997 Albania
Saint Mother Teresa, also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), born Anjezë Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was an Albanian-born Indian citizen, Roman Catholic Sister, and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Also known as: Mother Theresa, Mother teresa
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Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love....The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (2007)
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Malcolm Muggeridge in Something Beautiful for God (1971)
From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day.
We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (1998)
I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if the drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.
It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.
I beg of You only one thing—please do not take the trouble to return soon.—I am ready to wait for You for all eternity.
I've never seen the poor people being so familiar with their head of state as they were with her. It was a beautiful lesson for me.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
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.
Holiness is not the luxury of the few; it is a simply duty…
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
I speak of love for souls, of tender love for God, words pass through my words [sic, lips], and I long with a deep longing to believe in them!
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