No Greater Love

by Mother Teresa

Every child is a sign of God’s love, that has to be extended over all the earth.

If you hear of someone who does not want to have her child, who wants to have an abortion, try to convince her to bring the child to me. I will love that child, who is a sign of God’s love.

I don’t want to talk about what should be legal or illegal. I don’t think any human heart should dare to take life, or any human hand be raised to destroy life. Life is the life of God in us. Life is the greatest gift that God has bestowed on human beings, and man has been created in...

How wonderful it was — Almighty God chose an unborn child to announce the coming of His Son!

think the world today is upside-down.

down. It is suffering so much because there is so little love in the home and in family life. We have no time for our children. We have no time for each other. There is no time to enjoy each other, and the lack of love causes so much suffering and unhappiness in the world.

If we help our children to be what they should be today, then, when tomorrow becomes today, they will have the necessary courage to face it with greater love.

People who really and truly love each other are the happiest people in the world.

If you want a happy family, if you want a holy family, give your hearts to love.

Suffering, pain, sorrow, humiliation, feelings of loneliness, are nothing but the kiss of Jesus, a sign that you have

come so close that He can kiss you.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

At the moment of death, we will not be judged by the amount of work we

have done but by the weight of love we have put into our work. This love should flow from self-sacrifice, and it must be felt to the point of hurting.

If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!

Our work is our prayer because we carry it out through Jesus, in Jesus, and for the sake of Jesus.

Total surrender involves loving trust. You cannot surrender totally unless you trust lovingly and totally. Jesus trusted His Father because He knew Him, He knew of His love.

We often say to Christ, “Make us partakers of Your suffering.” But, when someone is insensitive to us, how easily we forget that this is the moment to share with Christ! It would be enough for us to remember that it is Jesus who gives us, through such a person or circumstance, the opportunity to do something beautiful for Him.

This imposes a great responsibility on us to fight against our own ego and love of comfort that would lead us to choose a comfortable and insignificant

Our human nature stays with us from beginning to end. We must work hard every day to conquer ourselves.

That’s why we cannot offer them anything but our testimony of love, seeing Christ Himself in each one of them, no matter how repugnant they seem to us.

Every day we try to live out Christ’s love in a very tangible way, in every one of our deeds.

When they accept love, they accept God and vice versa. Our witness is none other than that. At the same time, it would be a mistake