Chapter 1

沉默的果实是祈祷，祈祷的果实是信仰，信仰的果实是仁爱，仁爱的果实是服务，服务的果实是和平。

Chapter 2

一颗纯洁的心，很容易看到基督，在饥饿的人中，在赤身露体的人中，在无家可归的人中，在寂寞的人中，在没有人要的人中，在没有爱的人中，在麻风病人中，在酗酒的人中，在躺在街上的乞丐中。我们必须在爱之中成长，为此我们必须不停地去爱，去给予，直到收到伤害。

Chapter 3

人类缺少爱心是导致世界贫穷的根本原因，而贫穷则是我们拒绝与他人分享的结果。既然世界上的一切，都来自上帝的恩赐，所有人在上帝面前都是平等的，那么，当有人在饥饿和贫困中苦苦挣扎的时候，富人便没有权利独自支配自己多余的财富。

Chapter 4

玛丽亚，耶稣之母，让我心如你心，如此美丽，如此纯洁，如此完好无暇，充满如此的爱与谦卑，让我能在生命之粮里领受耶稣，如你爱他一般的爱他，在他化身为穷人中的穷人的悲苦身形中服侍他。---Mother Teresa和修女们的默想祷文

Chapter 5

饥饿不单指食物，而是指对爱的渴求；而是指对爱的渴求；赤身并不单指没有衣服，而是指人的尊严受到剥夺；无家可归并不单指需要一个栖身之所，而是指受到排斥和摒弃。除了贫穷和饥饿，世界上最大的问题是孤单和冷漠。孤独也是一种饥饿，是期待温暖爱心的饥饿。

Chapter 6

喜悦是爱，喜悦是祈祷，喜悦是力量。神喜爱那些怀着喜悦给予的人，如果你怀着喜悦给予，你将会给得更多。一颗喜悦的心来自一颗燃烧着爱的心。爱之功亦即喜悦之功。快乐不须探寻：若以爱待人，旋即得之。

Chapter 7

噢！主，我们相信你就在这里；我们崇拜你，我们爱你，全心全意，因为你值得我们全部的爱。我们亟思像天堂诸圣爱你般地爱你，我们崇仰你的神意所展布的一切，我们完全顺服于你的意旨。我们爱邻人就像爱我们自己也是为你；我们真心宽恕所有曾经伤害我们的人，同时请求所有我们曾经伤害的人原谅我们。亲爱的耶稣，帮助我们，让我们不管走到哪里都能散播你的芳香，将我们的灵魂注满

你的精神与生命。穿透与统摄我们全部的存在，如此的彻底，好让我们的生命只是你璀璨光华中的一束微光。透过我们发亮发光，同时将这亮光留驻我们身上，好让我们接触的每一个人，都可以在我们身上感觉到你的存在。让他们抬头仰望时不再看见我们，而只看到你！留在我们身边，如此我们将如你一样发亮发光；噢，耶稣，这全是你的光亮，无一丝来自我们身上。是你透过我们朝他人发亮发光。因此让我们以你最喜爱的方式赞美你，此即朝我们身边的人发亮发光。让我们不需传道便能传你的福音，毋需话语，只要我们立下榜样，只要我们藉由我们的作为发散吸引人的力量与引发共鸣的影响，只要我们心中对你满溢的爱，在他人眼中是如此的清楚明朗。--- Mother Teresa和修女们每天念诵的祈祷文 Chapter 8

亲爱的主，伟大的治疗者，我跪在你跟前，因每一个完美之礼必出自你。我祈祷，赐技巧予我手，明视予我知，亲切与温柔予我心。赐我专心一意，力量足以稍卸受苦兄弟的负担，真实体会我的恩赐。除去我心的欺狡与尘俗，好让我怀着孩童的纯真信仰，倚靠着你。---儿童之家的医师祈祷文，也是每个仁爱传教修女会的成员在“使徒工作”开始前必作的祈祷。

Chapter 9

花时间思考，花时间祷告，花时间笑。那是力量的源头，那是世界最强大的力量，那是灵魂的音乐。

花时间游戏，花时间去爱和被爱，花时间给予。那是青春常驻的秘诀，那是上主赋予的特恩。一日光阴苦短何容自私为己。

花时间阅读，花时间和善对人，花时间工作。那是智慧的源泉，那是通往快乐之路，那是成功的代价。花时间去行善，那是天国之钥匙。---加尔各答孩童之家墙壁上的标语：

Chapter 10

他是—真理—要被传述；生命—要被经历；亮光--要被点燃；爱—要被爱；道路—要被遵循；喜悦—要被给予；和平--要被散播；牺牲—要被奉献。噢！耶稣，请解除我--被爱的向往，被夸奖的向往，被尊崇的向往，被赞美的向往，被喜欢的向往，被请益的向往，被赞同的向往，被欢迎的向往。被羞辱的恐惧，被蔑视的恐惧，被责难的恐惧，被毁谤的恐惧，被遗忘的恐惧，被冤枉的恐惧，被讥笑的恐惧，被怀疑的恐惧。--- Mother Teresa和修女们每天念诵的祈祷文 Chapter 11

上主，让我能够为世界各地，在贫穷饥饿之中辗转死生的同胞服务。让我们的手在此日递给他们日用的食粮；让我们借由谅解的爱，给予和平与喜悦。---仁爱传教修女会的义工彼德最喜爱的祈祷文，出自教皇保罗六世之手

Chapter 12

身为朋友，我不希求黄金或辉煌的赠礼能讨他欢心，只是坐在他身旁，让他握着我的手 我想，钱财是否让人无视于巨额的宝藏。他是你的一亩田地 你以爱播种，以感恩收割。他是你的餐桌、你的温床，让你饥饿时有所投靠，追寻他以获取和平。--纽约“艾滋病之家”的一个患者写下的诗歌（节选）

Chapter 13

我们在此不为工作，而是为了耶稣，我们所做的一切都是为他。我们首先是修会会士，我们非社会工作者、教师、护士，亦非医师，我们是修女。我们在穷苦这之中服侍耶稣。我们在穷苦者、遭弃者、患病者、孤儿、瀕死者之中，照顾他，探望他，抚慰他，给他衣服。我们所做的一切--我们的祈祷、我们的工作、我们的苦痛都是为了耶稣。我们的生命没有其他的理由与动机。这点许多人并不了解。---加尔各答仁爱传教修女会总部墙上的标语

Chapter 14

如果我们没有脚，就不能行走；如果我们没有眼睛，就看不见；同样，如果没有信仰，我们就无法相信超出我们理解范围的神秘事物。信仰是上帝的礼物，它借着祈祷而茁壮，如同希望与爱一样。就没有祈祷，就不会有坚强的信仰，没有信仰，就不能实施爱。这是内在生命的三个主要美德。---仁爱传教修女会卡特里修女的讲话

Chapter 15

我所要传达给你们的有关和平的信息只有一个，那就是彼此相爱，如同上帝爱你们一样。耶稣为我们带来一个好消息，让我们知道上帝爱我们，他希望我们彼此相爱。当死亡的时刻到来，当我们再次回归上帝，我们将听到他说：来吧，拥抱这个为你们准备的王国。因为我饿了，你们给我吃；我赤身露体，你们给我穿；我病了，你们看顾我。任何事你们既做在最小的那个身上，就是做在我身上了。 Chapter 16

人们不讲道理，思想谬误，自我中心，不管怎样，总是爱他们。如果你做善事，人们说你自私自利、别有用心，不管怎样，总是要做善事。如果你成功后，身边尽是假的朋友和真的敌人，不管怎样，总是要成功。你所做的善事明天就被遗忘，不管怎样，总是要做善事。诚实与坦率使你易受攻击，不管怎样，总是要诚实与坦率。你耗费数年所建设的可能毁于一旦，不管怎样，总是要建设。人们确实需要帮助，然而你若帮助他们，却可能遭到攻击，不管怎样，总是要帮助。将你所拥有的最好的东西献给世界，你可能会被踢掉牙齿，不管怎样，总是要将你所拥有的最好的东西献给世界。---加尔各答孩童之家墙壁上的标语

 

第二篇：Nobel Lecture Speech by Mother Teresa Oslo

Nobel Lecture Speech by Mother Teresa Oslo, Norway

As we have gathered here together to thank God for the Nobel Peace Prize I think it will be beautiful that we pray the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi which always surprises me very much- we pray this prayer every day after Holy Communion, because it is very fitting for each one of us, and I always wonder that 4-500 years ago as St. Francis of Assisi composed this prayer that they had the same difficulties that we have today, as we compose this prayer that fits very nicely for us also. I think some of you already have got it- so we will pray together.

Let us thank God for the opportunity that we all have together today, for this gift of peace that reminds us that we have been created to live that peace, and Jesus became man to bring that good news to the poor. He being God became man in all things like us except sin, and he proclaimed very clearly that he had come to give the good news. The news was peace to all of good will and this is something that we all want- the peace of heart- and God loved the world so much that he gave his son - it was a giving - it is as much as if to say it hurt God to give, because he loved the world so much that he gave his son, and he gave him to Virgin Mary, and what did she do with him?

As soon as he came in her life - immediately she went in haste to give that good news, and as she came into the house of her cousin, the child- the unborn child- the child in the womb of Elizabeth, leapt with joy. He was that little unborn child, was the first messenger of peace. He recognised the Prince of Peace, he recognised that Christ has come to bring the good news for you and for me. And as if that was not enough- it was not enough to become a man - he died on the cross to show that greater love, and he died for you and for me and for that leper and for that man dying of hunger and that naked person lying in the street not only of Calcutta, but of Africa, and New York, and London, and Oslo- and insisted that we love one another as he loves each one of us. And we read that in the Gospel very clearly- love as I have loved you- as I love you- as the Father has loved me, I love you- and the harder the Father loved him, he gave him to us, and how much we love one another, we, too, must give each other until it hurts. It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God, and you don't love your neighbour. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live. And so this is very important for us to realise that love, to be true, has to hurt. It hurt Jesus to love us, it hurt him. And to make sure we remember his great love he made himself the bread of life to satisfy our hunger for his love. Our hunger for God, because we have been created for that love. We have been created in his image. We have been created to love and be loved, and then he has become man to make it possible for us to love as he loved us. He makes himself the hungry one- the naked one - the homeless one- the sick one- the one in prison- the lonely one - the unwanted one- and he says: You did it to me. Hungry for our love, and this is the hunger of our poor people. This is the hunger that you and I must find, it may be in our own home.

I never forget an opportunity I had in visiting a home where they had all these old parents of sons and daughters who had just put them in an institution and forgotten maybe. And I went there, and I saw in that home they had everything, beautiful things, but everybody was looking towards the

door. And I did not see a single one with their smile on their face. And I turned to the Sister and I asked: How is that? How is it that the people they have everything here, why are they all looking towards the door, why are they not smiling? I am so used to see the smile on our people, even the dying one smile, and she said: This is nearly every day, they are expecting, they are hoping that a son or daughter will come to visit them. They are hurt because they are forgotten, and see- this is where love comes. That poverty comes right there in our own home, even neglect of love. Maybe in our own family we have somebody who is feeling lonely, who is feeling sick, who is feeling worried, and these are difficult days for everybody. Are we there, are we there to receive them, is the mother there to receive the child?

I was surprised in the West to see so many young boys and girls given into drugs, and I tried to find out why- why it is like that, and the answer was: Because there is no one in the family to receive them. Father and mother are so busy they have no time. Young parents are in some institution and the child takes back to the street and gets involved in something. We are talking of peace. These are things that break peace, but I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing- direct murder by the mother herself. And we read in the Scripture, for God says very clearly: Even if a mother could forget her child- I will not forget you - I have carved you in the palm of my hand. We are carved in the palm of His hand, so close to Him that unborn child has been carved in the hand of God. And that is what strikes me most, the beginning of that sentence, that even if a mother could forget something impossible - but even if she could forget - I will not forget you. And today the greatest means - the greatest destroyer of peace is abortion. And we who are standing here - our parents wanted us. We would not be here if our parents would do that to us. Our children, we want them, we love them, but what of the millions. Many people are very, very concerned with the children in India, with the children in Africa where quite a number die, maybe of malnutrition, of hunger and so on, but millions are dying deliberately by the will of the mother. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today. Because if a mother can kill her own child- what is left for me to kill you and you kill me- there is nothing between. And this I appeal in India, I appeal everywhere: Let us bring the child back, and this year being the child's year: What have we done for the child? At the beginning of the year I told, I spoke everywhere and I said: Let us make this year that we make every single child born, and unborn, wanted. And today is the end of the year, have we really made the children wanted? I will give you something terrifying. We are fighting abortion by adoption, we have saved thousands of lives, we have sent words to all the clinics, to the hospitals, police stations - please don't destroy the child, we will take the child. So every hour of the day and night it is always somebody, we have quite a number of unwedded mothers- tell them come, we will take care of you, we will take the child from you, and we will get a home for the child. And we have a tremendous demand from families who have no children, that is the blessing of God for us. And also, we are doing another thing which is very beautiful- we are teaching our beggars, our leprosy patients, our slum dwellers, our people of the street, natural family planning.

And in Calcutta alone in six years- it is all in Calcutta- we have had 61,273 babies less from the families who would have had, but because they practise this natural way of abstaining, of self-control, out of love for each other. We teach them the temperature meter which is very beautiful, very simple, and our poor people understand. And you know what they have told me?

Our family is healthy, our family is united, and we can have a baby whenever we want. So clear- those people in the street, those beggars- and I think that if our people can do like that how much more you and all the others who can know the ways and means without destroying the life that God has created in us.

The poor people are very great people. They can teach us so many beautiful things. The other day one of them came to thank and said: You people who have vowed chastity you are the best people to teach us family planning. Because it is nothing more than self-control out of love for each other. And I think they said a beautiful sentence. And these are people who maybe have nothing to eat, maybe they have not a home where to live, but they are great people. The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition- and I told the Sisters: You take care of the other three, I take of this one that looked worse. So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful smile on her face. She took hold of my hand, as she said one word only: Thank you - and she died.

I could not help but examine my conscience before her, and I asked what would I say if I was in her place. And my answer was very simple. I would have tried to draw a little attention to myself, I would have said I am hungry, that I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something, but she gave me much more - she gave me her grateful love. And she died with a smile on her face. As that man whom we picked up from the drain, half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home. I have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for. And it was so wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without blaming anybody, without cursing anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel- this is the greatness of our people. And that is why we believe what Jesus had said: I was hungry- I was naked- I was homeless - I was unwanted, unloved, uncared for - and you did it to me.

I believe that we are not real social workers. We may be doing social work in the eyes of the people, but we are really contemplatives in the heart of the world. For we are touching the Body Of Christ 24 hours. We have 24 hours in this presence, and so you and I. You too try to bring that presence of God in your family, for the family that prays together stays together. And I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.

There is so much suffering, so much hatred, so much misery, and we with our prayer, with our sacrifice are beginning at home. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do. It is to God Almighty- how much we do it does not matter, because He is infinite, but how much love we put in that action. How much we do to Him in the person that we are serving.

Some time ago in Calcutta we had great difficulty in getting sugar, and I don't know how the word got around to the children, and a little boy of four years old, Hindu boy, went home and told his

parents: I will not eat sugar for three days, I will give my sugar to Mother Teresa for her children. After three days his father and mother brought him to our home. I had never met them before, and this little one could scarcely pronounce my name, but he knew exactly what he had come to do. He knew that he wanted to share his love.

And that is why I have received such a lot of love from you all. From the time that I have come here I have simply been surrounded with love, and with real, real understanding love. It could feel as if everyone in India, everyone in Africa is somebody very special to you. And I felt quite at home I was telling Sister today. I feel in the Convent with the Sisters as if I am in Calcutta with my own Sisters. So completely at home here, right here.

And so here I am talking with you- I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people. And find out about your next-door-neighbor - do you know who they are? I had the most extraordinary experience with a Hindu family who had eight children. A gentleman came to our house and said: Mother Teresa, there is a family with eight children, they had not eaten for so long- do something. So I took some rice and I went there immediately. And I saw the children- their eyes shining with hunger - I don't know if you have ever seen hunger. But I have seen it very often. And she took the rice, she divided the rice, and she went out. When she came back I asked her - where did you go, what did you do? And she gave me a very simple answer: They are hungry also. What struck me most was that she knew- and who are they, a Muslim family - and she knew. I didn't bring more rice that evening because I wanted them to enjoy the joy of sharing. But there were those children, radiating joy, sharing the joy with their mother because she had the love to give. And you see this is where love begins- at home. And I want you- and I am very grateful for what I have received. It has been a tremendous experience and I go back to India- I will be back by next week, the 15th I hope - and I will be able to bring your love.

And I know well that you have not given from your abundance, but you have given until it has hurt you. Today the little children they have- I was so surprised - there is so much joy for the children that are hungry. That the children like themselves will need love and care and tenderness, like they get so much from their parents. So let us thank God that we have had this opportunity to come to know each other, and this knowledge of each other has brought us very close. And we will be able to help not only the children of India and Africa, but will be able to help the children of the whole world, because as you know our Sisters are all over the world. And with this prize that I have received as a prize of peace, I am going to try to make the home for many people that have no home. Because I believe that love begins at home, and if we can create a home for the poor- I think that more and more love will spread. And we will be able through this understanding love to bring peace, be good news to the poor. The poor in our own family first, in our country and in the world.

To be able to do this, our Sisters, our lives have to be woven with prayer. They have to be woven with Christ to be able to understand, to be able to share. Because today there is so much suffering - and I feel that the passion of Christ is being relived all over again - are we there to share that passion, to share that suffering of people. Around the world, not only in the poor countries, but I

found the poverty of the West so much more difficult to remove. When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But a person that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that has been thrown out from society - that poverty is so hurtable and so much, and I find that very difficult. Our Sisters are working amongst that kind of people in the West. So you must pray for us that we may be able to be that good news, but we cannot do that without you, you have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor, maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something. So you pray for our Sisters and for me and for our Brothers, and for our Co-Workers that are around the world. That we may remain faithful to the gift of God, to love Him and serve Him in the poor together with you. What we have done we should not have been able to do if you did not share with your prayers, with your gifts, this continual giving. But I don't want you to give me from your abundance, I want that you give me until it hurts.

The other day I received 15 dollars from a man who has been on his back for twenty years, and the only part that he can move is his right hand. And the only companion that he enjoys is smoking. And he said to me: I do not smoke for one week, and I send you this money. It must have been a terrible sacrifice for him, but see how beautiful, how he shared, and with that money I bought bread and I gave to those who are hungry with a joy on both sides, he was giving and the poor were receiving. This is something that you and I- it is a gift of God to us to be able to share our love with others. And let it be as it was for Jesus. Let us love one another as he loved us. Let us love Him with undivided love. And the joy of loving Him and each other- let us give now - that Christmas is coming so close. Let us keep that joy of loving Jesus in our hearts. And share that joy with all that we come in touch with. And that radiating joy is real, for we have no reason not to be happy because we have no Christ with us. Christ in our hearts, Christ in the poor that we meet, Christ in the smile that we give and the smile that we receive. Let us make that one point: That no child will be unwanted, and also that we meet each other always with a smile, especially when it is difficult to smile.

I never forget some time ago about fourteen professors came from the United States from different universities. And they came to Calcutta to our house. Then we were talking about that they had been to the home for the dying. We have a home for the dying in Calcutta, where we have picked up more than 36,000 people only from the streets of Calcutta, and out of that big number more than 18,000 have died a beautiful death. They have just gone home to God; and they came to our house and we talked of love, of compassion, and then one of them asked me: Say, Mother, please tell us something that we will remember, and I said to them: Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. Smile at each other. And then another one asked me: Are you married, and I said: Yes, and I find it sometimes very difficult to smile at Jesus because he can be very demanding sometimes. This is really something true, and there is where love comes - when it is demanding, and yet we can give it to Him with joy. Just as I have said today, I have said that if I

don't go to Heaven for anything else I will be going to Heaven for all the publicity because it has purified me and sacrificed me and made me really ready to go to Heaven. I think that this is something, that we must live life beautifully, we have Jesus with us and He loves us. If we could only remember that God loves me, and I have an opportunity to love others as he loves me, not in big things, but in small things with great love, then Norway becomes a nest of love. And how beautiful it will be that from here a centre for peace has been given. That from here the joy of life of the unborn child comes out. If you become a burning light in the world of peace, then really the Nobel Peace Prize is a gift of the Norwegian people. God bless you!