It's Mother Teresa's birthday next week (August 27, 1910). In honor of that, I offer some of her words of wisdom...
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."
"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."
"There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I’ve always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic. We believe our work should be our example to people. We have among us 475 souls - 30 families are Catholics and the rest are all Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs—all different religions. But they all come to our prayers."
"When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed."
"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway."
2 comments:
Good blog post, brother. It's interesting that you should have written a post with the same title as a post I wrote back in 2006. In case you would like to see what I wrote on this topic, here's the link: http://cost-of-discipleship.blogspot.com/2006/03/peace-begins-with-smile.html
I came to your blog thru our mutual contact on Fr Neo's blog. As you also quote, peace begins with a smile, I wish you peace, brother. Go with God.
Thanks for stopping by, Romanos.
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