Mother Theresa

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"We may wonder: whom can I love and serve? The answer is simple, that hungry one, that naked one, that lonely one, that unwanted one, is my brother and my sister. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to eachother."

"Peace beings with a smile"

I have the feeling that we are in such a hurry that we do not have time to look at one another and smile.

There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying.
This cannot be.
Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.
It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

Make us, Lord, worthy to serve our brothers and sisters who are scattered all over the world, who live and die alone and poor. Give them today, using our hands, their daily bread. And, using our love, give them peace and happiness. Amen.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.