People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered
LOVE THEM ANY WAY
If you do good, people will accuse you of ulterior motives
DO GOOD ANY WAY
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies
BE SUCCEED ANY WAY
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow
DO GOOD ANY WAY
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable
BE HONEST AND FRANK ANY WAY
What you spend years building can be destroyed overnight
BUILD ANY WAY
People really need help but may attack you when you help them
HELP THEM ANY WAY
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth,
GIVE THE WORLD YOU'VE GOT ANY WAY
Words to live by. From a sign on the wall of Shishu Bhavan, the Children's home in Calcutta that hung in Mother Teresa's office. I love this. If we quite doing things for each other because we might get hurt, unrecognized, or a waste of time, God's work would never get done. Mother Teresa was a good example of what it means to do it anyway regardless of the sacrifice.
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
The Bible reads from Leviticus to Revelation Love one another....Love your neighbor as your self...and the greatest of these is Love....God is love..... Mother Teresa had it right when she said "we belong to each other.. " It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace. We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world. They could be Jesus in disguise. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Moral of this Blog: "whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." - 1 Corinthians 10:31
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