Dear students,
Thank you for all your contribution. Please let me know which quote is your favourite and why. Cant wait to read your comments.
- Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation inthis world than for bread.
- Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.
- No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
- If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
- I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person.
- Do not find God far away. He's not there, he is besides you. (Thanks to Tiffany for the lovely translation)
- One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Love is doing small things with great love.
13 comments:
do we have to memorize all of this?
I think all of them are good!
will there a dictation on these quotes??
Pls DON'T do that to us..
but i think they are really gd~~*
I think all of them are good. The one makes me most impressive is "Love is doing small things with great love."
I think all of them are good. The one makes me most impressive is "Love is doing small things with great love."
ok u say mama teresa is a women of exellence but i dun thunk so... Ok shez brill,"peace on earth, peace on earth", got nobel prize (thatz good), but shez still not a saint, cuz the church said that she did not have enough faith in God. She wrote letters telling the church that she was hopeless and she can't go on. Honestly, searf on the web but i'll make a biography of Mother Teresa... (not showing off...) Her Quotes r sure good~~
Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997) was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. For over forty years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying in Kolkata (Calcutta), India.
As the Missionaries of Charity grew under Mother Teresa's leadership, they expanded their ministry to other countries. By the 1970s she had become internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless. Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.[2][3]
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Early life
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born on 26 August 1910, in Skopje, which is now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.[4] She was the youngest of the children of a family ,born to Nikola and Drane Bojaxhiu. Nikola was involved in politics and devoted to the Albanian Cause. After a political meeting he fell ill and died when Agnes was about eight years old.[4] After her father's death, her mother raised her as a Roman Catholic. According to a biography by Joan Graff Clucas, in her early years Agnes was fascinated by stories of the lives of missionaries and their service, and by age 12 was convinced that she should commit herself to a religious life.[5] She left home at age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto as a missionary. She never again saw her mother or sister.[6]
Agnes initially went to the Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland to learn English, the language the Sisters of Loreto used to teach school children in India.[7] She arrived in India in 1929, and began her novitiate in Darjeeling, near the Himalayan mountains.[8] She took her first religious vows as a nun on 24 May 1931. At that time she chose the name Teresa after Thérèse de Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries.[9] She took her solemn vows on 14 May 1937, while serving as a teacher at the Loreto convent school in eastern Calcutta.[10][11]
Although Teresa enjoyed teaching at the school, she was increasingly disturbed by the poverty surrounding her in Calcutta.[12] A famine in 1943 brought misery and death to the city; and the outbreak of Hindu/Muslim violence in August 1946 plunged the city into despair and horror.[13]
MISSIONARY CHARITY
Teresa received Vatican permission on October 7, 1950 to start the diocesan congregation that would become the Missionaries of Charity.[19] Its mission was to care for, in her own words, "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." It began as a small order with 13 members in Calcutta; today it has more than 4,000 nuns running orphanages, AIDS hospices, and charity centers worldwide, and caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless, and victims of floods, epidemics, and famine.[20]
In 1952 Mother Teresa opened the first Home for the Dying in space made available by the City of Calcutta. With the help of Indian officials she converted an abandoned Hindu temple into the Kalighat Home for the Dying, a free hospice for the poor. She renamed it Kalighat, the Home of the Pure Heart (Nirmal Hriday).[21] Those brought to the home received medical attention and were afforded the opportunity to die with dignity, according to the rituals of their faith; Muslims were read the Quran, Hindus received water from the Ganges, and Catholics received the Last Rites.[22] "A beautiful death," she said, "is for people who lived like animals to die like angels — loved and wanted."[22] Mother Teresa soon opened a home for those suffering from Hansen's disease, commonly known as leprosy, and called the hospice Shanti Nagar (City of Peace).[23] The Missionaries of Charity also established several leprosy outreach clinics throughout Calcutta, providing medication, bandages and food.
As the Missionaries of Charity took in increasing numbers of lost children, Mother Teresa felt the need to create a home for them. In 1955 she opened the Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, the Children's Home of the Immaculate Heart, as a haven for orphans and homeless youth.[24]
The order soon began to attract both recruits and charitable donations, and by the 1960s had opened hospices, orphanages, and leper houses all over India. Mother Teresa then expanded the order throughout the globe. Its first house outside India opened in Venezuela in 1965 with five sisters.[25] Others followed in Rome, Tanzania, and Austria in 1968; during the 1970s the order opened houses and foundations in dozens of countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the United States.[26]
Her philosophy and implementation have faced some criticism. While noting how little evidence Mother Teresa's critics were able to find against her, David Scott wrote that Mother Teresa limited herself to keeping people alive rather than tackling poverty itself.[27] She has also been criticized for her view on suffering: according to an article in the Alberta Report, she felt that suffering would bring people closer to Jesus.[28] The quality of care offered to terminally ill patients in the Homes for the Dying has been criticised in the medical press, notably The Lancet and the British Medical Journal, which reported an anti-materialist approach that precluded the use of systematic diagnosis, the reuse of hypodermic needles, and poor living conditions, including the use of cold baths for all patients.[29]
Deteriorating health and death
Mother Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983, while visiting Pope John Paul II. After a second attack in 1989, she received an artificial pacemaker. In 1991, after a battle with pneumonia while in Mexico, she suffered further heart problems. She offered to resign her position as head of the Missionaries of Charity. But the nuns of the order, in a secret ballot, voted for her to stay. Mother Teresa agreed to continue her work as head of the order.
In April 1996, Mother Teresa fell and broke her collar bone. In August she suffered from malaria and failure of the left heart ventricle. She had heart surgery, but it was clear that her health was declining. On March 13, 1997, she stepped down from the head of Missionaries of Charity and died on September 5, 1997, nine days after her 87th birthday.
The Archbishop of Calcutta, Henry Sebastian D'Souza, said he ordered a priest to perform an exorcism on Mother Teresa with her permission when she was first hospitalized with cardiac problems because he thought she may be under attack by the devil.[38]
At the time of her death, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, an associated brotherhood of 300 members, and over 100,000 lay volunteers, operating 610 missions in 123 countries. These included hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, orphanages, and schools.
got the biography frm Wiki, deleted some nonsense and hope u will enjoy
Hey miss Wong,
those qoutes are extraordinary!
(except mine... XD)
What are these quotes for? Do we have to memorize them?
Which one is mine???
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