“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ”
-Mother Teresa
As I look over these quotes, I am especially struck by the first– the challenge that love doesn’t need to be extraordinary, but that it is important to ”love without getting tired.” It seems like so often in our world, and in my own assumptions, the dramatic gets applauded before the faithful. And yet there is great value in God’s economy to loving sacrifically even
on a Tuesday
with the laundry
when no one notices
and you’re tired.
Have a favorite Mother Teresa quote to share? Which of the above strikes you today?
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10. March 2010 at 12:45 pm
love is a fruit in season at all times, and available within reach of every hand. – mother teresa
10. March 2010 at 6:12 pm
To love without getting tired. (Even when no one notices.) Yes. Thanks for sharing this today.
10. March 2010 at 9:17 pm
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert Maynard Hutchins
11. March 2010 at 12:04 am
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11. March 2010 at 12:57 pm
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12. March 2010 at 1:10 am
oh, man, yes . . .isn’t the loving without getting tired a challenge with mothering small children?? holy cow, such a “quiet, unnoticed” kind of service. hope you guys are doing well. love to your family from ours, L
12. March 2010 at 1:14 am
I love this quote and agree. I think it a greater goal in education to teach children how to find their own answers. Thanks for sharing and for stopping by.
12. March 2010 at 1:17 am
love this one, shannon. hope you guys are doing well . . .
happy march.
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11. May 2010 at 2:59 pm
Hiya, thanks for posting these quotes. I too love the part about loving without getting tired. This is a woman that doesn’t talk from education but from experience and that’s the best way sometimes. Very inspirational.