Recently Mother Teresa was canonized a Saint! Here are some great quotes by her, compliments of our favorite Priest, Father Don!
Saint
Mother Teresa, pray for us!
“Each
person’s mission is a mission of love. Begin the place where you are,
with the people closest to you. Make your homes centers of compassion and
forgive endlessly. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better
and happier. At the hour of death, when we come face to face with God, we
are going to be judged on love; not how much we have done, but how much love we
put into the doing.”
“So
many people talk about the poor…how many actually talk to the
poor?”
“God
does not ask us to be successful, God asks us to be faithful.”
“For
Mary, the annunciation was when Jesus came into her life, which was her first
communion day. And she did something very beautiful. As she
realized Jesus was with her, she went in haste, immediately to see her cousin
Elizabeth who was with child. And we know what that unborn child did:
leapt with joy at the presence of Christ, his Savior. John the Baptist
was the first to declare Jesus had come. It is wonderful to think that
John, as an unborn child, had the first privilege to proclaim the coming of
Christ.”
"Abortion kills twice. It kills the
body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly
anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all
the mothers."
"America needs no words from me to
see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called
right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against
men. It has shown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human
relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father’s role in an
increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts (a
child) as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has
exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other
sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They
are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of their humanity. The right to
life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the
pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign."
"Any
country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use
violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and
peace is abortion"
"Many
people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where
quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the
violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very
good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being
killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest
destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness."
“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.”
“Everybody
today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and
greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their
parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins
the disruption of peace in the world.”
“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 to eat. I was naked and you
clothed me. I was homeless and you took me in.’ Hungry not only for bread
but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing but naked of human
dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of brinks but
homeless because of rejection. This is Christ in distressing disguise.”
