Mother Teresa Quotes

“La vita è una grande opportunità, traine profitto.
La vita è bellezza, ammirala.
La vita è benedizione, sperimentalo.
La vita è un sogno, realizzalo.
La vita è una sfida, accettala.
La vita è un dovere, portalo a termine.
La vita è un gioco, giocalo.
La vita è un bene, salvaguardalo.
La vita è amore, godilo.
La vita è un mistero, scoprilo.
La vita è una promessa, adempila.
La vita è dolore, superalo.
La vita è un canto, cantalo.
La vita è una lotta, accettala.
La vita è una tragedia, sappi tenerle testa.
La vita è un'avventura, osala.
La vita è vita, preservala.
La vita è una fortuna, approfittane.
La vita è troppo preziosa, non distruggerla!”
― Kathryn Spink, Madre Teresa

“People throughout the world may look different, or have a different religion, education or position but they are all the same. They are all people to be loved.” Above”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: An Authorized Biography

“The communist authorities told Mother Teresa that they had no poor in China, because in China the government looked after the poor, whereupon Mother Teresa informed them that she was delighted to hear that they had no poor but that she thought perhaps there might be some people who were disheartened and in need of a little encouragement. She and her Sisters would like to bring hope to the discouraged. That much the Chinese government was prepared to allow them to do.”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“Nessuno pensa alla penna mentre legge una lettera [...] vuole solo conoscere l'intenzione della persona che l'ha scritta.”
― Kathryn Spink, Madre Teresa

“It was to be a place for the forgotten, the abandoned and the homeless who faced a terrible illness alone. Unlike the Gift of Love home, it would have the capacity to accommodate women and children as well as men.”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“Mother Teresa did not return directly to India. A request had come through from the families of American hostages held in Iran fro her to intercede personally on their behalf and appeal for their release. Mother Teresa, by her own admission, knew little of the political complexities of the problem... she responded to an obvious human need by going to the Iranian Embassy in Rome and asking to speak to the Ayatollah either on the telephone or in Iran itself. The Iranian Embassy gave the new Nobel laureate no response at all.”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“There was also the desire to co-operate with journalists and writers in an attempt to draw from them the fulfillment of the vocation she saw as theirs: namely, to write something beautiful for God.”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“In the words of India's President Girl, Mother Teresa was 'among those emancipated souls who have transcended all barriers of race, religion, creed and nation.”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“God has his own ways and means to work in the hearts of men and we do not know how close they are to him, but by their actions we will always know whether they are at his disposal or not.”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“she had seen the poverty of the rich and the wealth of the poor, and the value of bringing the rich and poor together”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“Mother Teresa with almost pragmatic efficiency had brought together two perceived needs: the need for a kind of power house of prayer o the part of her Missionaries of Charity; and the need of the sick and suffering to find a meaning to their existence. Over and above this, however, many of the Sick and Suffering links became living witnesses to Mother Teresa's conviction that suffering could draw people closer to God. The letters of the Sick and Suffering bore such eloquent witness to her belief that 'suffering begets life in the soul' that in 1983 Mother Teresa would take the unusual step of actually suggesting that they should be published. The reason she gave was less uncharacteristic: 'It will help many people to love Jesus more.;”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“If we can find a purpose for accepting his cross as Jesus Christ accepted his own then one will never feel alone.”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“to her Christ was actual and real, and for those prepared to perceive this reality suffering need be neither senseless nor solitary”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“she had also witnessed a courage which far exceeded endurance, a joy which transcended pain and the manner in which suffering could be the medicine which deepened people's humanity”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“Smile at Jesus in your suffering - for to be a real Missionary of Charity you must be a cheerful victim.”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“Nuns who looked sad were, she pointed out, the greatest stumbling block to vocations because young people, like God, loved a cheerful giver.”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“Of necessity, theirs must often be an interior silence, surrounded as they were for much of the time by noise and restlessness. To make possible true interior silence she told her Sister they would practice”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life.”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“She wanted them to live in union with God and with one another. Silence was at the root of that union, for God was 'the friend of silence':”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“letter. That’s exactly what I am in God’s hand—a little pencil. God is writing his love letter to the world in this way, through works of love.”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: An Authorized Biography