Tag: Mother Teresa

Today’s One-Liner (#220)

In mental prayer, shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. –Saint John Vianney, quoted in Mother Teresa, Everything Starts from Prayer: Meditations on Spiritual Life for People of All Faiths, selected and…

Longing

I remember some time ago I visited a very wonderful home for old people. There were about forty people there and they had everything, but they were all looking toward the door. There was not…

Today’s One-Liner (#217)

Everything depends on these words: “I will” or”I will not.”  –Mother Teresa, Everything Starts from Prayer: Meditations on Spiritual Life for People of All Faiths, selected and Arranged by Anthony Stern, 42

Ask the Good Sisters

Would the re-sacralization of the priesthood pull the Church back from her work with the poor and the friendless? Would we become a house of self-regarding bourgeois pietism? Well, seek out for yourself a slum…

Today’s One-Liner (#158)

You may be exhausted with work, even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. –Mother Teresa, Everything Starts from Prayer, Selected and Arranged by Anthony Stern