Mother Teresa, (1910 – 1997), was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. In 1950 Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation which had over 4,500 sisters and was active in 133 countries in 2012.
德蘭修女(1910年-1997),阿爾巴尼亞裔印度籍羅馬天主教修女及傳教士。 1950年德蕾莎創立羅馬天主教仁愛傳教會,這一機構在全球133個國家活動,修女數目超過4,500人。
1691. Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. 中文 / Chinese:
讓我們不要只為捐獻滿足。金錢是不足夠的,金錢可以得到,但他們需要你的心去愛他們。所以,無論你去哪裡,傳開你的愛。
1692. It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. 中文 / Chinese:
愛遙遠的人很容易。愛身邊的人不容易。施飯給飢餓比減輕我們家沒有被愛的孤獨和痛苦容易。把愛帶進家裡因為我們的相愛要在這裡開始。
1693. It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. 中文 / Chinese:
幫助陷落的人是皇者風範。
1694. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion. 中文 / Chinese:
我們不需要槍和炸彈去帶來和平,我們需要愛和憐憫。
1695. I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. 中文 / Chinese:
我寧可你在仁慈裡犯錯而不是在無情中創造奇跡。
1696. There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. 中文 / Chinese:
討論應當減少;講道的點並不是連接點。你應當做什麼?拿起掃帚去打掃別人的房屋。
1600. We need to find God and HE cannot be found in noise and restlessness, God is the friend of silence, see how nature - trees, flowers, grass-grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. 中文 / Chinese:
我們需要尋找上帝,衪不能在吵鬧和煩亂不安裡找到。上帝是寂靜的朋友,看大自然怎樣成長,花,草,樹在寂靜裡生長;看著星星,月亮,太陽怎樣在寂靜中移動。我們需要寧靜才可以接觸到心靈。
1601. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. 中文 / Chinese:
愛是所有季節的水果和每人都可以得到。
1602. Never be so busy as not to think of others. 中文 / Chinese:
永不要忙碌到不去想其他人。
1603. We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved. 中文 / Chinese:
我們必定要知道我們是為偉大的事而被創造出來,不祇是世上一個數字,不衹是為了文憑和學位,做這工作和那工作。我們是為了愛和被愛而創造出來。
1604. A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy. 中文 / Chinese:
一顆快活的心是充滿燃燒著愛的正常結果。她給予最多,她快樂地給予。
1605. Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. 中文 / Chinese:
沒有基督的光,話語會增加黑暗。
1520. May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in. 中文 / Chinese:
請上帝把我的完全打碎讓整個世界放進來。
1521. Give, but give until it hurts. 中文 / Chinese:
付出,但付出直至它受傷。
1522. When you don't have anything then you have everything. 中文 / Chinese:
當你什麼也沒有,然後你得所有。
1523. Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. 中文 / Chinese:
他們每一個都是耶穌的幌子。
1524. I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. 中文 / Chinese:
我不祈求成功,我請求忠誠。
1525. Life is a game, play it. 中文 / Chinese:
人生是一場遊戲,玩吧。
1526. Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. 中文 / Chinese:
愛由照顧身邊的人開始 - 家裡的人。
1527. Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls. 中文 / Chinese:
歡樂是一張愛的網,它可以捕捉心靈。
1528. Intense love does not measure it just gives. 中文 / Chinese:
激烈的愛不會衡量它只會付出。
1529. Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. 中文 / Chinese:
快樂在這一刻,那已足夠了。每一個時刻是我們所需的,不是更多。
1458. I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘how many good things have you done in your life?’ Rather he will ask, ‘how much love did you put into what you did?’ 中文 / Chinese:
我不肯定天堂會是怎樣,但我知道當我們死後面對上帝的審判時,衪不會問你一生中做過多少件好事?’而衪會問’在你做過的事情裡,放了多少愛進去?’
1459. Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
中文 / Chinese:
讓我指出一點,當你感到笑有困難時,遇見對方時要有笑容。笑臉迎人,為家人騰出時間。
1460. A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness. 中文 / Chinese:
真正的獻祭代價一定大,一定受傷,和一定要倒空自己。將自己完全獻給上帝。衪會用你實現偉大的事,只要你相信衪的愛多過相信自己的弱點。
1461. In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with himself sounds of prayer are souls of prayer are souls of great silence. 中文 / Chinese:
在心靜時上帝發聲。如果你祈禱和寂靜時面對上帝,衪會跟你說話。然後你會知道你什麼也不是。當你明白到虛無,空性,上帝才可以用衪的靈將你填滿。
1410. I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus. 中文 / Chinese:
我想人受痛苦是件好事。對我來說那是耶穌的吻。
1411. If we were humble, nothing would change us - neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud. 中文 / Chinese:
假如我們謙卑,沒有事情改變到我們 - 既非贊揚或是挫折。假如有人批評我們,我們不會感到挫折。假如有人贊揚我們,我們也不會感到自豪。
1412. Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God. 中文 / Chinese:
神聖不在于做非凡的事情。它在于笑著接受耶穌給我們的。它在于接受和跟隨上帝的旨意。
1413. Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. 中文 / Chinese:
祈禱使你的心更大,直至它能夠包含上帝在裡面。
1414. Without a spirit of sacrifice, without a life of prayer, without an intimate attitude of penance, we would not be capable of carrying out our work. 中文 / Chinese:
沒有犧牲的精神,沒有祈禱的生命,沒有懺悔的心,我們便不能實行我們的工作。
1415. The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them. 中文 / Chinese:
貧民是偉大的!貧民是美妙的!貧民是十分大方的!他們給我們比我們給他們更多。
1291. There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things. 中文 / Chinese:
有很多人可以做大事,但很少人願意做小事。
1292. Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. 中文 / Chinese:
這一刻要快樂,已足夠了。我們只需要這刻,不是更多。
1293. Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world. 中文 / Chinese:
耶穌說愛另一人。他沒有說愛整個世界。
1294. The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family. 中文 / Chinese:
治癒這個世界的方法是從家庭開始。
1295. The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love. 中文 / Chinese:
世界上最偉大的科學;在天在地;是愛。
1296. Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life. 中文 / Chinese:
心中深刻的快樂像一條磁鐵指示出生命的道路。
1297. A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. 中文 / Chinese:
一個喜悅的心是一顆心被愛燒著的正常結果。
1298. Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people. 中文 / Chinese:
今天出去這世界愛你所遇見的人。讓你的出現照亮人們的心。
1231. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. 中文 / Chinese:
貧窮判決了一個小孩必然死亡,那麼你可以生活得如你所願。
1232. Work without love is slavery. 中文 / Chinese:
沒有愛的工作是奴隸制。
1233. If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one. 中文 / Chinese:
假如你不能餵一百,只餵一個。
1234. I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. 中文 / Chinese:
我寧願在仁慈和憐憫中犯錯,總好過在冷酷和苛刻中創造奇蹟。
1235. People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. 中文 / Chinese:
人是不實際的,不合邏輯和自我中心的。不管怎樣,愛他。
1236. The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver. 中文 / Chinese:
那個贈送一個笑容的人是最好的贈送者因為上帝愛一個令人愉快的贈送者。
1237. Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead. 中文 / Chinese:
愛不是要人領情,慈善不是同情,這是關於愛。慈善和愛是一樣的 -- 有慈悲你給予愛,因此不要只給金錢但要伸出你的手。
1238. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. 中文 / Chinese:
你花了很多年建造的可能一夜間被摧毀;無論如何也建造它。
1200. Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less. 中文 / Chinese:
沒有耐心,我們會在生活學習得較少。我們會看見較少。我們會感覺較少。我們會聽較少。諷刺地,衝及更多通常意味著較少。
1201. When you don't have anything, then you have everything. 中文 / Chinese:
當你什麼也沒有,然後你擁有所有。
1202. Give, but give until it hurts. 中文 / Chinese:
給予,但給予直至它刺痛。
1203. Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. 中文 / Chinese:
他們每一個都是耶穌的幌子。
1204. Prayer in action is love, love in action is service. 中文 / Chinese:
愛是祈禱的行動,愛的行動是服務。
1205. I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. 中文 / Chinese:
我不祈求成功,我懇求忠誠。
1206. How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers. 中文 / Chinese:
怎可以說太多小孩?那是說太多花朵。
1207. Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you. 中文 / Chinese:
悲痛和劫難已經來到你的生命,但記得悲痛,哀傷和劫難卻是耶穌的吻 - 意味著你已接近到一個距離他可以親你。
1178. I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. 中文 / Chinese:
我是書寫之神手上的小鉛筆,發送一封愛的信件給世界。
1179. Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. 中文 / Chinese:
祈禱不是請求。祈禱是把自己放在上帝的手裡,任由衪安排,和在深心裡聆聽衪的聲音。
1180. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. 中文 / Chinese:
如果你是謙卑,沒有什么東西碰到你,贊美和恥辱也不可以,因為你知道你是什麼。
1181. I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. 中文 / Chinese:
我可以做你不能做的事,你可以使我不能做的事;一起我們能夠做偉大的事。
1182. We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something. 中文 / Chinese:
我們都知道我們所做的不多過海洋的一滴。但如果沒有那一滴,海洋會少了某東西。
1183. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. 中文 / Chinese:
不要等待領袖;單獨去做,單對單。
1184. A life not lived for others is not a life. 中文 / Chinese:
不為其他人而生活不是生活。
1135. The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. 中文 / Chinese:
最可怕的貧窮是孤獨,和不被愛的感覺。
1136. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. 中文 / Chinese:
如果我們沒有和平,這是因為我們忘記了我們屬於對方。
1137. What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. 中文 / Chinese:
你有什麼做能夠促進世界和平?回家愛你的家庭。
1138. God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try. 中文 / Chinese:
上帝不需要我們成功,衪只需要我們嘗試。
1139. It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. 中文 / Chinese:
不是我們給予多少而是我們放了多少愛在給予裡。
1140. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. 中文 / Chinese:
我單獨不能改變世界,但我可以投一塊石頭橫過水面產生很多漣漪。
1141. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. 中文 / Chinese:
要消除對愛的渴望比消除對麵包的渴望難得多。
1142. Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly. 中文 / Chinese:
從不飛跑快過你會飛的守護天使。
1143. Live simply so others may simply live. 中文 / Chinese:
生活簡單那麼其他人可以簡單地生活。
1064. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish. 中文 / Chinese:
我永不會明白所有好的事情都是一個簡單的笑容可以完成。
1065. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. 中文 / Chinese:
假如你判斷人,你沒有時間去愛他們。
1066. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. 中文 / Chinese:
不是我們所有人可以做偉大的事情。但我們可以用偉大的愛做小的事情。
1067. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. 中文 / Chinese:
昨天過去了。明天還未來。我們只有今天。讓我們開始吧。
1068. Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. 中文 / Chinese:
不要想愛一定要特別的才是真的。我們要的是不會厭倦的愛。對小事情忠實因為力量在它們裡面。
1069. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. 中文 / Chinese:
仁慈的話可以簡短和易說,但它們的回響是真正的無止境。
1070. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. 中文 / Chinese:
讓所有人離開你時更好和更開心。把上帝的仁慈活生生表露出來:仁慈的面容,仁慈的眼神,仁慈的笑容。
941. Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together. 中文 / Chinese:
祈禱是把我們的房子保持在一起的灰泥。
942. Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you. 中文 / Chinese:
從不要擔心數字。一次一次幫助人和永遠從身邊人開始。
943. If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve. 中文 / Chinese:
假如我們祈禱,我們會相信;假如我們相信,我們會愛;假如我們愛,我們會侍奉。
944. Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world. 中文 / Chinese:
孤單是現代世界麻瘋病。
945. We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully. 中文 / Chinese:
我們從快樂地接受羞辱裡學到謙恭。
946. The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective. 中文 / Chinese:
樹,花,植物沈默地生長。星星,太陽,月亮沈默地移動。沈默給我們一個新的觀點。
947. The fruit of Silence is Prayer; The fruit of Prayer is Faith; The fruit of Faith is Love; The fruit of Love is Service; The fruit of Service is Peace. 中文 / Chinese:
沈默的果實是祈禱;祈禱的果實是信念;信念的果實是愛。愛的果實是侍奉;侍奉的果實是和平。
948. He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others. 中文 / Chinese:
沒有過失的他不會介意別人的意見。
517. Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary. 中文 / Chinese:
在生活裡把上帝的愛傳開去但只用需要到的話。
518. Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other — it doesn’t matter who it is — and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other. 中文 / Chinese:
向對方笑。向你的太太笑,向你的丈夫笑,向子女笑。向對方笑 不論何人它會為我們生出更美妙的愛。
519. Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it. 中文 / Chinese:
人生是機會,從它受惠。人生是美麗,欣賞它。人生是夢,實現它。人生是挑戰,面對它。人生是職責,完成它。人生是遊戲,遊玩它。人生是承諾,履行它。人生是傷痛,克服它。人生是歌曲,演唱它。人生是掙扎,接受它。 人生是悲劇,對抗它。人生是冒險,探索它。人生是運氣,製造它。人生太珍貴,不要毀壞它。人生是人生,爭取它。
520. The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. 中文 / Chinese:
墮胎是和平最大的破壞者因為假如一個母親可以殺她自己的孩子,離開我們互相殘殺還有多遠?
171. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. 中文 / Chinese:
讓我們笑著遇見,因為笑容是愛的開始。
172. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. 中文 / Chinese:
孤單和被遺棄是最可怕的窮困。
173. We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. 中文 / Chinese:
我們有時想窮困只是肚餓,裸露,和無家可歸。被遺棄,無人去愛,無人關心的窮困是最大的貧困。我們必須在家開始改善這種貧困。
174. If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. 中文 / Chinese:
如果你想要愛的信息被聽到,它一定要被發送出去。一盞燈要燃著,我們一定要持續放燈油進去。
175. There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. 中文 / Chinese:
人們可以生活得很好一定有原因。他們一定是用工作得來的。只是當我看見浪費我會生氣。當我看見人們丟棄我們可以用的東西。
176. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. 中文 / Chinese:
對小事情要有信心,因為力量就在它們裡面。
177. Peace begins with a smile. 中文 / Chinese:
和平由一個笑容開始。