No greater love by Teresa Mother

Author:Teresa Mother [Mother, Teresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Teresa, Mother, 1910-, Catholic Church -- Doctrines, Missionaries of Charity, Christian life -- Catholic authors, Spiritual life -- Catholic Church
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 1997-06-27T19:00:00+00:00

MOTHER TERESA

Know the poorest of the poor are among your neighbors, in your neighborhoods, in your town, in your city, perhaps in your own family. When you know them, that will lead you to love them. And love will impel you to serve them. Only then will you begin to act like Jesus and live out the gospel. Place yourselves at the service of the poor. Open your hearts to love them. Be living witnesses of God's mercy.

The poor do not need our compassion or our pity; they need our help. What they give to us is more than what we give to them.

The poor are wonderful people. They have their own dignity, which we can easily see. Usually the poor are not known, and therefore one is not able to discover their dignity. But the poor have above all great courage to lead the life they lead. They are forced to live like that; poverty has been imposed on them. We choose poverty; they are forced to accept it.

The poor are our prayer. They carry God in themselves. God created the world and saw that it

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