Mother Teresa's 112th Birth Anniversary: Interesting Facts And Quotes

Mother Teresa is one of the world's most venerated saints and one of the twentieth century's most influential spiritual giants. She is a striking symbol of genuine Christian generosity and a beacon of hope for everyone yearning for it in these trying times.

August 26 marks the 112th birth anniversary of Mother Teresa, the missionary who came to be known as "Saint Teresa of Calcutta," a city in India where she spent a significant time of her life. She persevered despite the paucity of resources available to her and never stopped spreading love and smiles.

The name Mother Teresa is indicative of love, compassion, and charity. She had one of the purest souls and lived her entire life to better the lives of others.

Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu was born in Skopje, which is now the capital of Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Following a spiritual call, she decided to devote her life to God at the age of 12, an age so tender but her intentions strong.

She helped many impoverished people in need, including those who had leprosy, TB, and HIV/AIDS.

Let's revisit a few facts about Mother Teresa on her birth anniversary.

1. Mother Teresa was awarded over 120 honors, including the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work in 1979 and the Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize in 1962
2. She rescued 37 children trapped in a front-line hospital by a temporary cease-fire between Israel and Palestine.
3. She was fluent in English, Hindi, Bengali, Albanian, and Serbian.
4. While teaching poor children in Calcutta, Mother Teresa did not have any supplies or equipment. However, she managed to teach the children to read and write by writing in the dirt with wooden sticks.
5. A special Rs 5 coin was released by the Indian government to commemorate the birth centenary of Mother Teresa.

Here are a few inspiring quotes by Mother Teresa, the epitome of selfless love.

1. "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
2. "Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
3. "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
4. "The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."
5. "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."
6. "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
7. "I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world."
8. "Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand."
9. "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."
10. "I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."