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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa (1910-1997), real name Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, was a Yugoslavian missionary, a Roman Catholic nun living in India. She founded Missionaries of Charity. She received India's Order of the Lotus for charitable works among poor. She was also first recipient of John XXIII Peace Prize and Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She was canonised on 4 September 2016 and was declared a saint. Her death anniversary 5 September is her feast day.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
- For the Brotherhood of Man
  • God is the friend of silence. Trees, flowers, grass grow in silence. See the stars, moon, and sun, how they move in silence.
- For the Brotherhood of Man
  • Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.
- Life in the Spirit
  • We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- Life in the Spirit
  • The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you.
- Life in the Spirit
  • Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
  • To keep lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
  • The poor are our brothers and sisters... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

Ai Qing


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