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“she had seen the poverty of the rich and the wealth of the poor, and the value of bringing the rich and poor together”

Wealth Poor Poverty Rich

Book:Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

Source: Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“She wanted them to live in union with God and with one another. Silence was at the root of that union, for God was 'the friend of silence':”

Book:Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

Source: Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life.”

Religion Silence Biography Writings

Book:Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

Source: Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“Of necessity, theirs must often be an interior silence, surrounded as they were for much of the time by noise and restlessness. To make possible true interior silence she told her Sister they would practice”

Religion Silence Biography

Book:Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

Source: Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“Mother Teresa with almost pragmatic efficiency had brought together two perceived needs: the need for a kind of power house of prayer o the part of her Missionaries of Charity; and the need of the sick and suffering to find a meaning to their existence. Over and above this, however, many of the Sick and Suffering links became living witnesses to Mother Teresa's conviction that suffering could draw people closer to God. The letters of the Sick and Suffering bore such eloquent witness to her belief that 'suffering begets life in the soul' that in 1983 Mother Teresa would take the unusual step of actually suggesting that they should be published. The reason she gave was less uncharacteristic: 'It will help many people to love Jesus more.;”

Suffering Sickness Biography

Book:Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

Source: Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“she had also witnessed a courage which far exceeded endurance, a joy which transcended pain and the manner in which suffering could be the medicine which deepened people's humanity”

Pain Suffering Humanity

Book:Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

Source: Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“to her Christ was actual and real, and for those prepared to perceive this reality suffering need be neither senseless nor solitary”

Book:Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

Source: Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography