The Richest Mind of Poverty:
He Became Poor for Our Sakes
Quotes from No Greater Love by Mother Theresa
Humility and Prayer
· You acquire humility only by accepting humiliations.
· What is contemplation? To live the life of Jesus. To love Jesus. To live his life in us, to live our life in his life.
· Living in Love in in each present moment - seeing Jesus in "distressing disguise".
· We have to have a clean heart to realize his constant presence and his tender love for us in the least little things of life. Heart and mind you go to him and give to him as soon as you get up.
· On pages 24-25 she tells stories of two very poor families loving their terribly deformed and crippled children - one mother called her handicapped child "the greatest gift of God." Another parent called her child "teacher of love."
· True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. Ask Him the courage to love. The best way to show your love and gratitude is to accept everything with joy.
· Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science or eloquence. Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness.
· Choosing to be poor to love God and others more—on pages 102-103 and 155-156, she describes their choice of poverty. the Sisters of Charity like so many other orders of monks or nuns and their fellow workers deliberately choose many things like a hard and simple bed and bare room and having only a bucket of water with which to bath themselves.
· The poor are our prayer. They carry God in themselves. They are the hope of humanity for we will all be judged by how we have treated the poor.
Our penance is an act of perfect love for God, man and the whole universe-a joyful identification with Christ crucified.
Even Mother Theresa went to confession every week, experiencing the loving mercy of the forgiving Father. On page 113 she wrote that the knowledge of self is very necessary for confession.
Love God with all heart, mind and soul. Love neighbor as you love yourself.
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