Friday Figure: Mother of Compassion

Hello everyone!

My Friday Figure for today is Mother Teresa
I have been thinking about her a lot since last Tuesday;
her love, her compassion, and her selfless life speaks louder than words.

If we really want to conquer the world, 

we will not be able to do it with bombs or with other weapons of destruction. 

Let us conquer the world with our love. 

Let us interweave our lives with bonds of sacrifice and love, 

and it will be possible for us to conquer the world. 

We do not need to carry out grand things in order to show a great love for God and for our neighbour. It is the intensity of love we put into our gestures that makes them into something beautiful for God. 

Peace and war start within one’s own home. 

If we really want peace for the world, 

let us start by loving one another within our families. 

Sometimes it is hard for us to smile at one another. 

It is often difficult for the husband to smile at his wife or for the wife to smile at her husband. 

In order for love to be genuine, it has to be above all a love for our neighbor. 

We must love those who are nearest to us, in our own family. 

From there, love spreads toward whoever may need us. 

It is easy to love those who live far away. 

It is not always easy to love those who live right next to us. 

It is easier to offer a dish of rice to meet the hunger of a needy person 

than to comfort the loneliness and the anguish of someone in our own home 

who does not feel loved. 

I want you to go and find the poor in your homes. 

Above all, your love has to start there. 

I want you to be the good news to those around you. 

I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. 

Do you know who your neighbor is?

True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. 

That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us courage to love. 

From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 

If your heart is full of love, you will speak love.

I want you all to fill your hearts with great love.

Don't imagine that love, to be true and burning, must be extraordinary.

No; 

what we need in our love is 

the continuous desire to love the ONE we love. 

-Excerpt from No Greater Love: Mother Teresa 

Mother Teresa understood deeply that LOVE is the essence of one's life. 

She lived her life overwhelmed by the love of God 

and decided to share love and compassion to people, unwanted people. 

She accepted people who were rejected. 

Love as little as a smile is essential.

Everytime you smile at someone it is an action of love

A gift to that person, a beautiful thing

Let's always meet each other with smile

for the smile is the beginning of love

-Mother Teresa

Dear friends, 

let us continue to love one another, 

for love comes from God. 

Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

But anyone who does not love does not know God, 

for God is love.

1 John 4:7-8

For His Glory~