Mother Teresa Quotes: Sayings To Celebrate Catholic Saint Of Calcutta's Birth Anniversary

Sunday marks the 108th birth anniversary of Mother Teresa, one of the most significant and worldwide recognized figures of the Catholic world.

Mother Teresa, originally named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was born in Skopje, Macedonia, in 1910. She worked as nun focused on helping the poor in India for which she earned wide renown and was given a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

After her death in Sept. 5, 1997, she was canonized as a saint in a ceremony at the St Peter’s Square in Vatican City in September 2016.

“After due deliberation and frequent prayer for divine assistance, and having sought the counsel of many of our brother bishops, we declare and define Blessed Teresa of Calcutta to be a saint and we enrol her among the saints, decreeing that she is to be venerated as such by the whole Church,” said Pope Francis.

Here are a few inspirational quotes by Mother Teresa, as taken from Brainy Quote:

“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.”

“Peace begins with a smile.”

“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”

“Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

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

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.”

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

“Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.”

“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”

“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.”

“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”

“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”

“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”

“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”

“There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.”

“If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”