No Greater Love

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781608684465
• ISBN10: 1608684466
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-08-02
• Publisher: New World Library

Summary

One of the world's most recognized and loved spiritual leaders, Mother Teresa has inspired millions with her extraordinary example of compassionate and selfless work for the poor, the ill, and the outcast.

Considered by many to be a saint, she was a steadfast voice of love and faith, providing immeasurable kindness and guidance to the world's downtrodden.

No Greater Love is the essential wisdom of Mother Teresa — the most accessible and inspirational collection of her teachings ever published. This definitive volume features Mother Teresa on love, prayer, giving, service, poverty, forgiveness, Jesus, and more. It ends with a biography and a revealing conversation with Mother Teresa about the specific challenges and joys present in her work with the poor and the dying.

No Greater Love is a passionate testament to Mother Teresa's deep hope and abiding faith in God and the world. It will bring readers into the heart of this remarkable woman, showing Mother Teresa's revolutionary vision of Christianity in its graceful, poetic simplicity. Through her own words, No Greater Love celebrates the life and work of one of the great humanitarians of our time.

Author Biography

Mother Teresa (1910–1997) became known to the world for her selfless work with the “poorest of the poor” in Calcutta, India. Born in 1910 in Skopje, now the capital of Macedonia, Mother Teresa began her novitiate in India in 1928.

Since its inception in 1950, her order, the Missionaries of Charity, has opened more than 500 centers around the world to help the dying and destitute. During her lifetime Mother Teresa received many of the world’s most prestigious humanitarian awards, including the United States’ Medal of Freedom, the United Nations’ Albert Schweitzer Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize.

Thomas Moore, the author of Care of the Soul, lives in Wilton, NH.