Mother Teresa :If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.
On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, "The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. In 1965 the Society became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI.
The Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world, including the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. They provide effective help to the poorest of the poor in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and they undertake relief work in the wake of natural catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and famine, and for refugees. The order also has houses in North America, Europe and Australia, where they take care of the shut-ins, alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers. The Missionaries of Charity throughout the world are aided and assisted by Co-Workers who became an official International Association on March 29, 1969. By the 1990s there were over one million Co-Workers in more than 40 countries. Along with the Co-Workers, the lay Missionaries of Charity try to follow Mother Teresa's spirit and charism in their families.
Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972). She also received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton and Magsaysay awards. Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997.




Mother Teresa Famous Quotations

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.  If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.   If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.  If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.  The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.   For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and     them anyway.

Peace begins with a smile.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need   is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that   your strength lies.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

God doesn't require you to succeed, he only requires that you try.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great   things.

 Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who   will do the small things.

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create   many ripples.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own  child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over  again.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving   happier.

Joy is strength