Reading ... Mother Teresa, No Greater Love

By this evidence everyone will know that you are my disciples - is you have love for one another. -- Jesus, John 13:35

We do not need to carry out grand things in order to show a great love for God and for our neighbor. It is the intensity of love we put into our gestures that makes them into something beautiful for God.

Peace and war start within one's own home. If we really want peace for the world, let us start by loving one another within our families... I want you to go and find the poor in your own homes.

True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love... He wants us to love one another, to give ourselves to each other until it hurts... When we all see God in each other, we will love one another as He loves us all.

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 be loved.

-- Mother Teresa, No Greater Love; passages from p. 26-29