Mother Teresa’s 109th Birth Anniversary: Remebering the Messenger of Peace

Mother Teresa is famous for her contributions to the distressed and downtrodden. She has received awards and recognition during her lifetime – that includes Ramon Magsaysay Awards and the Nobel Peace Prize too. Saint Teresa of Calcutta is the founder of Missionaries of Charity, and though she was born in Skopje, she lived and served here in India.

Here is a list of quotes that inspired us:

1. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
2. Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
3. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
4. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
5. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
6. We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
7. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
8. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
9. God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
10. What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
11. I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?
12. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
13. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
14. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
15. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

She always is and will be an inspirational force in our lives.