November Twenty Sixteen

 November Twenty-Sixteen 

“Paying attention to our lives is a way to pay thanks to our Lord.” 

–Ann Voskamp

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” -Mother Teresa 

“My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.” -Cynthia Kadohata Kira-Kira 

"How does a lamp burn? Through the continuous input of small, small drops of oil. What are these drops of oil in our lamps?  They are the small things of daily life: faithfulness, small words of kindness, a thought for others, our way of being silent, of looking, of speaking, and of acting. Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there. He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him." –Mother Teresa No Greater Love

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” -Mother Teresa 

“A life not lived for others is not a life.” -Mother Teresa 

"All the we love deeply becomes a part of us." 

-Helen Keller

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” -Mother Teresa 

“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.” -Mother Teresa 

What’s becoming clearer and clearer to me is that the most sacred moments, the ones in which I feel God’s presence most profoundly, when I feel the goodness of the world most arrestingly, take place at the table.  –Shauna Niequist Bread and Wine

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” 

-Mother Teresa 

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” -Mother Teresa