We Cannot force someone to hear a message that they are not ready to receive.

We Cannot force someone to hear a message that they are not ready to receive.
But we must never underestimate the power of planting a seed.

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Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Remind yourself that God is with you and that nothing can defeat Him.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Remind yourself that God is with you and that nothing can defeat Him.

 

The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have.

Mother Teresa principle:
The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve people with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you are honored by others.

This is how I have understood this principle:
We sympathize with powerless people but when it is in our own family, our own career or our own reputation is at stake, then we do not take the risk and we normally support the people with power.

Often the odds are against the powerless people, they are likely to lose. Even if they are right and in our hearts we support them, but supporting the powerless is to risk failure, disapproval, end of a career, end of promotion etc. So we love the powerless, but we tend to follow the powerful people, we do what is respectable.

However, not every powerless person is right and not every powerless person's issues are important. But some are. From time to time we will discover a powerless person who needs the kind of help we can give, because of our position and our belief we should help that powerless person.
Later on when we look back at our life, we may conclude that fighting for a few powerless people was one of the most meaningful things we ever did.

Listen in Silence

Listen in Silence because

If your heart  is full of other

Things you cannot hear the

Voice of God

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God has placed a certain soul in our way by Mother Teresa

The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our

way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him

or her.

 

It is not a chance; It has been planned by God.

We are bound by conscience to help him or her

Mother Teresa said "I fear just one thing: money! Greed - the love of money"

Mother Teresa said "I fear just one thing: money! 

Greed - the love of money"

When Mother has a real problem: like finding a roof for lepers, a home for children(1), she goes to ask. 

And for every big donation of money she always has an immediate application in building a home, a hospital, 

a shelter... But never Mother Teresa does fund raising. The sisters know it very well: when there is no food, 

a need for a bigger place or need for money to be able to build or buy a house for the poor, Mother invites 

all the sisters to pray and often organizes adoration to put the matter in Gods' Hands.

 At the same time Mother is scrupulously looking and  checking how every single penny in a convent is spent. The sisters have to answer this every time she comes  to visit. Every cent is a gift for the poor.

Mother herself believes that she will have to answer to Jesus for every single penny people gave her, for every word she spoke, for every act she put. Because she wants her surrender to God, her trust in Him and her love for Him, so pure, so perfect, so beautiful... 

There should not be a spot, a hidden gesture, a wasted minute, a spoiled penny... Only when we can imagine a love so deep and honest, a devotion so pure, we can understand how deeply Mother was involved to a good use of the money people gave her. When we read this words of her, we can understand her 

better maybe: "I fear just one thing: money! Greed - the love of money - was what motivated Judas 

to sell Jesus." (M. Teresa)

What does it take to know God more clearly?

What does it take to know God more clearly?

The 2 essential ingredients are time and obedience. It takes time to cultivate a relationship, and unless we make the choice of setting aside consistent time for prayer & the reading of Scripture, we will never become intimate with God. 

Obedience is the proper response to this communication, since it is our personal expression of trust in the promises of the Person we are coming to know.

God's love for us is spontaneous, free, uncalled & undeserved. He did not set His love on us because we were lovable, beautiful or clever, because in our sin we were unlovable, ugly and foolish. He loved us because He chose to love us.

Mother Teresa on Money

Mother Teresa on Money

Many people think, especially in the

west, that having money makes you

happy. I think it must be harder to be

happy if you are wealthy because you

may find it difficult to see God: you

will have too many other things to think

about. 

However, if God has given you this gift

of wealth, then use it for his purpose -

Help others, help the poor, create jobs,

give work to others. 

Don't waste your wealth 

 

Better person

Better person by Mother Teresa

Some call God Ishwar. Others call him Allah. And others call him God.
There is only one God and He is God to all; 
Every one of has to recognize that He created us for better things, such as to love and be loved.
So Mother Teresa always said that we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, 
a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.

Mother Teresa on power

Mother Teresa principle:
The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you are honored by others.

A Child's expression of Love for her diety

Mother Teresa on Sharing

Accept the gifts of God and be deeply grateful. If He has given you great wealth, make good use of it, try to share it with others, with those who do not have anything.
Always share with others because even with a little help you may save them from becoming distressed. 
And do not take more than you need, that's all. Just accept whatever comes.

Mother Teresa