Mother Teresa: Giving Unselfishly

Mother Teresa gave unselfishly in a big way with her life. Everyone should have the attitude to give. We should teach our children to give to others, to be hard workers and provide for their families and to follow after God. Mrs. Happy Housewife wrote about Mother Teresa recently. She had a few great quotes that I just had to make note of:


Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred let me sow love,
where there is injury let me sow pardon,
where there is doubt let me sow faith,
where there is despair let me give hope,
where there is darkness let me give light,
Where there is sadness let me give joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not try to be comforted but to comfort,
not try to be understood but to understand,
not try to be loved but to love.
Because it is in giving that we receive,
it is in forgiving that we are forgiven,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
It is not enough for us to say: “I love God,” but I also have to love my neighbor.
St. John says that you are a liar if you say you love God and you don’t love your neighbor.
How can you love God whom you do not see,
if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live?
Because I talk so much of giving with a smile, once a professor from the United States asked me: “Are you married?” And I said: “Yes, and I find it sometimes very difficult to smile at my spouse, Jesus, because He can be very demanding – sometimes.” This is really something true.

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