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“If you could know how happy I am, as Jesus' little spouse. No one....could I envy, because I am enjoying my complete happiness, even when I suffer something for my beloved Spouse.”
― Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
― Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
“The burning zeal....that had led her to India had apparently vanished. At the same time....she clung steadfastly to the faith she professed, and without a drop of consolation, labored wholeheartedly in her daily service....of the poor.”
― Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
― Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
“What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence.”
― Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
― Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
“To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do so because her joy was rooted in the certitude of the ultimate goodness of God's loving plan for her. And though her faith in this truth did not touch her soul with consolation, she ventured to meet the challenges of life with a smile. Her one lever was her blind trust in God.”
― Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
― Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
“The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing.”
― Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
― Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
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