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.
德蕾莎修女(1910年-1997),阿尔巴尼亚裔印度籍罗马天主教修女及传教士。 1950年德蕾莎创立罗马天主教仁爱传教会,这一机构在全球133个国家活动,修女数目超过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:
让我们不要只为捐献满足。金钱是不足够的,金钱可以得到,但他们需要你的心去爱他们。所以,无论你去哪里,传开你的爱。
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:
爱遥远的人很容易。爱身边的人不容易。施饭给饥饿比减轻我们家没有被爱的孤独和痛苦容易。把爱带进家里因为我们的相爱要在这里开始。
1693. It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. 中文 / Chinese:
帮助陷落的人是皇者风範。
1694. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion. 中文 / Chinese:
我们不需要枪和炸弹去带来和平,我们需要爱和怜悯。
1695. I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. 中文 / Chinese:
我宁可你在仁慈里犯错而不是在无情中创造奇迹。
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:
讨论应当减少;讲道的点并不是连接点。你应当做什麽?拿起扫帚去打扫别人的房屋。
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:
请上帝把我的完全打碎让整个世界放进来。
1521. Give, but give until it hurts. 中文 / Chinese:
付出,但付出直至它受伤。
1522. When you don't have anything then you have everything. 中文 / Chinese:
当你什麽也没有,然後你得所有。
1523. Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. 中文 / Chinese:
他们每一个都是耶稣的幌子。
1524. I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. 中文 / Chinese:
我不祈求成功,我请求忠诚。
1525. Life is a game, play it. 中文 / Chinese:
人生是一场遊戏,玩吧。
1526. Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. 中文 / Chinese:
爱由照顾身边的人开始 - 家里的人。
1527. Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls. 中文 / Chinese:
欢乐是一张爱的网,它可以捕捉心灵。
1528. Intense love does not measure it just gives. 中文 / Chinese:
激烈的爱不会衡量它只会付出。
1529. Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. 中文 / Chinese:
快乐在这一刻,那已足够了。每一个时刻是我们所需的,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,為家人腾出時間。
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。对我来说那是耶稣的吻。
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:
假如我们谦卑,没有事情改变到我们 - 既非赞扬或是挫折。假如有人批评我们,我们不会感到挫折。假如有人赞扬我们,我们也不会感到自豪。
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:
神圣不在于做非凡的事情。它在于笑著接受耶稣给我们的。它在于接受和跟随上帝的旨意。
1413. Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. 中文 / Chinese:
祈祷使你的心更大,直至它能够包含上帝在里面。
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:
没有牺牲的精神,没有祈祷的生命,没有忏悔的心,我们便不能实行我们的工作。
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:
贫民是伟大的!贫民是美妙的!贫民是十分大方的!他们给我们比我们给他们更多。
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,但很少人愿意做小事。
1292. Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. 中文 / Chinese:
这一刻要快乐,已足够了。我们只需要这刻,不是更多。
1293. Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world. 中文 / Chinese:
耶稣说爱另一人。他没有说爱整个世界。
1294. The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family. 中文 / Chinese:
治癒这个世界的方法是从家庭开始。
1295. The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love. 中文 / Chinese:
世界上最伟大的科学;在天在地;是爱。
1296. Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life. 中文 / Chinese:
心中深刻的快乐像一条磁铁指示出生命的道路。
1297. A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. 中文 / Chinese:
一个喜悦的心是一颗心被爱烧著的正常结果。
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:
今天出去这世界爱你所遇见的人。让你的出现照亮人们的心。
1231. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. 中文 / Chinese:
贫穷判决了一个小孩必然死亡,那麽你可以生活得如你所愿。
1232. Work without love is slavery. 中文 / Chinese:
没有爱的工作是奴隶制。
1233. If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one. 中文 / Chinese:
假如你不能餵一百,只餵一个。
1234. I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. 中文 / Chinese:
我宁愿在仁慈和怜悯中犯错,总好过在冷酷和苛刻中创造奇蹟。
1235. People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. 中文 / Chinese:
人是不实际的,不合逻辑和自我中心的。不管怎样,爱他。
1236. The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver. 中文 / Chinese:
那个赠送一个笑容的人是最好的赠送者因为上帝爱一个令人愉快的赠送者。
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:
爱不是要人领情,慈善不是同情,这是关於爱。慈善和爱是一样的 -- 有慈悲你给予爱,因此不要只给金钱但要伸出你的手。
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间被摧毁;无论如何也建造它。
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:
没有耐心,我们会在生活学习得较少。我们会看见较少。我们会感觉较少。我们会听较少。讽刺地,衝及更多通常意味著较少。
1201. When you don't have anything, then you have everything. 中文 / Chinese:
当你什麽也没有,然後你拥有所有。
1202. Give, but give until it hurts. 中文 / Chinese:
给予,但给予直至它刺痛。
1203. Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. 中文 / Chinese:
他们每一个都是耶稣的幌子。
1204. Prayer in action is love, love in action is service. 中文 / Chinese:
爱是祈祷的行动,爱的行动是服务。
1205. I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. 中文 / Chinese:
我不祈求成功,我恳求忠诚。
1206. How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers. 中文 / Chinese:
怎可以说太多小孩?那是说太多花朵。
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:
悲痛和劫难已经来到你的生命,但记得悲痛,哀伤和劫难却是耶稣的吻 - 意味著你已接近到一个距离他可以亲你。
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:
我是书写之神手上的小铅笔,发送一封爱的信件给世界。
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:
祈祷不是请求。祈祷是把自己放在上帝的手里,任由衪安排,和在深心里聆听衪的声音。
1180. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. 中文 / Chinese:
如果你是谦卑,没有什么东西碰到你,赞美和耻辱也不可以,因为你知道你是什麽。
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;一起我们能够做伟大的事。
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:
我们都知道我们所做的不多过海洋的一滴。但如果没有那一滴,海洋会少了某东西。
1183. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. 中文 / Chinese:
不要等待领袖;单独去做,单对单。
1184. A life not lived for others is not a life. 中文 / Chinese:
不为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:
最可怕的贫穷是孤独,和不被爱的感觉。
1136. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. 中文 / Chinese:
如果我们没有和平,这是因为我们忘记了我们属於对方。
1137. What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. 中文 / Chinese:
你有什麽做能够促进世界和平?回家爱你的家庭。
1138. God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try. 中文 / Chinese:
上帝不需要我们成功,衪只需要我们尝试。
1139. It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. 中文 / Chinese:
不是我们给予多少而是我们放了多少爱在给予里。
1140. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. 中文 / Chinese:
我单独不能改变世界,但我可以投一块石头横过水面产生很多涟漪。
1141. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. 中文 / Chinese:
要消除对爱的渴望比消除对麵包的渴望难得多。
1142. Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly. 中文 / Chinese:
从不飞跑快过你会飞的守护天使。
1143. Live simply so others may simply live. 中文 / Chinese:
生活简单那麽其他人可以简单地生活。
1064. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish. 中文 / Chinese:
我永不会明白所有好的事情都是一个简单的笑容可以完成。
1065. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. 中文 / Chinese:
假如你判断人,你没有时间去爱他们。
1066. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. 中文 / Chinese:
不是我们所有人可以做伟大的事情。但我们可以用伟大的爱做小的事情。
1067. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. 中文 / Chinese:
昨天过去了。明天还未来。我们只有今天。让我们开始吧。
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:
不要想爱一定要特别的才是真的。我们要的是不会厌倦的爱。对小事情忠实因为力量在它们里面。
1069. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. 中文 / Chinese:
仁慈的话可以简短和易说,但它们的回响是真正的无止境。
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:
让所有人离开你时更好和更开心。把上帝的仁慈活生生表露出来: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:
祈祷是把我们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:
从不要担心数字。一次一次帮助人和永远从身边人开始。
943. If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve. 中文 / Chinese:
假如我们祈祷,我们会相信;假如我们相信,我们会爱;假如我们爱,我们会侍奉。
944. Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world. 中文 / Chinese:
孤单是现代世界麻疯病。
945. We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully. 中文 / Chinese:
我们从快乐地接受羞辱里学到谦恭。
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:
树,花,植物沈默地生长。星星,太阳,月亮沈默地移动。沈默给我们一个新的观点。
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:
沈默的果实是祈祷;祈祷的果实是信念;信念的果实是爱。爱的果实是侍奉;侍奉的果实是和平。
948. He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others. 中文 / Chinese:
没有过失的他不会介意别人的意见。
517. Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary. 中文 / Chinese:
在生活里把上帝的爱传开去但只用需要到的话。
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:
向对方笑。向你的太太笑,向你的丈夫笑,向子女笑。向对方笑 不论何人它会为我们生出更美妙的爱。
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:
人生是机会,从它受惠。人生是美丽,欣赏它。人生是梦,实现它。人生是挑战,面对它。人生是职责,完成它。人生是遊戏,遊玩它。人生是承诺,履行它。人生是伤痛,克服它。人生是歌曲,演唱它。人生是挣扎,接受它。 人生是悲剧,对抗它。人生是冒险,探索它。人生是运气,製造它。人生太珍贵,不要毁坏它。人生是人生,争取它。
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:
堕胎是和平最大的破坏者因为假如一个母亲可以杀她自己的孩子,离开我们互相残杀还有多远?
171. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. 中文 / Chinese:
让我们笑著遇见,因为笑容是爱的开始。
172. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. 中文 / Chinese:
孤单和被遗弃是最可怕的穷困。
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:
我们有时想穷困只是肚饿,裸露,和无家可归。被遗弃,无人去爱,无人关心的穷困是最大的贫困。我们必须在家开始改善这种贫困。
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:
如果你想要爱的信息被听到,它一定要被发送出去。一盏灯要燃著,我们一定要持续放灯油进去。
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:
人们可以生活得很好一定有原因。他们一定是用工作得来的。只是当我看见浪费我会生气。当我看见人们丢弃我们可以用的东西。
176. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. 中文 / Chinese:
对小事情要有信心,因为力量就在它们里面。
177. Peace begins with a smile. 中文 / Chinese:
和平由一个笑容开始。