God's Creature
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
God's Creature
Her true name is Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, but she was called
Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She was born in Skopje, Ottoman Empire on August 26th, 1910. Her parents were Albanian descent and they were a Catholic family. When Mother Teresa was eight years old her father was sick and died in 1919.
When she was young,
she taught geography and history for children. She arrived in India in 1929 to fulfill her dream to caring for the sick and poor people. In India, Mother Teresa started to help people out such
as abandoned children, sick people, lepers and others like this.
In 1950's and 1960's she established a leper colony, an orphanage, a nursing home, a family clinic and mobile health clinics.
After decades, people realized Mother Teresa was working hard to help needly people. Because of it, she was rewarded and got Nobel Peace Prize (Nobel Laureate) in October 17th, 1979 for her humanitarian work. In her speeach, she said "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop".She died on September 5th, 1997 in Calcutta, India at the age of 87. She had a heart attack when she was serving a religious cerimony in Princess Diana memory. The Princess was her close friend and unfortunately she died in a car accident on August 31st, 1997.
Mother Teresa was buried in Calcultta, India. And she left a legacy that continues through Nirmala Sister. Teresa claimed mensages of peace, love and life lessons. And the most important thing that Mother Teresa left to us was the example of how human being should be and everyone can contribute to do something good for the world. Her life story inspires and encorages people to do the same.
Mother Teresa's Quotes:
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
- Mother Teresa
“I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.”
- Mother Teresa
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
- Mother Teresa
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
- Mother Teresa
“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
- Mother Teresa
“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.”
- Mother Teresa
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
- Mother Teresa
“Live simply so others may simply live.”
- Mother Teresa
“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
- Mother Teresa
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
- Mother Teresa
“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
- Mother Teresa
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
- Mother Teresa
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
- Mother Teresa
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
- Mother Teresa
“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
- Mother Teresa
“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”
- Mother Teresa
“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”
- Mother Teresa
“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. ”
- Mother Teresa“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
- Mother Teresa
“I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.”
- Mother Teresa
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
- Mother Teresa
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
- Mother Teresa
“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
- Mother Teresa
“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.”
- Mother Teresa
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
- Mother Teresa
“Live simply so others may simply live.”
- Mother Teresa
“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
- Mother Teresa
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
- Mother Teresa
“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
- Mother Teresa
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
- Mother Teresa
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
- Mother Teresa
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
- Mother Teresa
“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
- Mother Teresa
“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”
- Mother Teresa
“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”
- Mother Teresa
“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. ”
“Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
- Mother Teresa
“Life is beauty admire it!”
- Mother Teresa
- Mother Teresa
“Life is beauty admire it!”
- Mother Teresa
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