September 5, 1997
                                      
                  Web posted at: 3:05 p.m. EDT (1905 GMT)
                                      
                                      
                   CALCUTTA, India (CNN) -- The legendary
                 nun Mother Teresa has died at age 87. She
                  reportedly died of cardiac arrest in her
                  relgious order's headquarters in eastern
                     India, Friday. The spokeswoman for
                   Missionaries of Charity said the Roman
                       Catholic nun died at 9:30 p.m.
                                      
                                      
Mother Teresa spent her life taking care of those she lovingly called "the 
poorest of the poor." Young and old alike revered the Roman Catholic nun, 
who became known as a "saint on Earth." Mother Teresa said she saw Christ in 
the faces of the poor, the outcast, the maimed and the dying. She felt they 
all deserved what she called "the delicate love of God."
                                      
                                      
Wherever she went, her message was the same: "Love the poor." "I think it 
is really important that we all realize they are our brothers and sisters, 
and we owe that love and care and concern," she once said.
                                      
                                      
The diminutive nun took her message of care and concern around the world. She
regularly visited the victims of major disasters, praying for their recovery 
and helping raise money for their care.
                                      
                                      
Mother Teresa's "Missionaries of Charity" grew from 12 original followers to 
thousands of sisters working in 450 centers around the world.
                                      
                                      
Calcutta, India, was Mother Teresa's adopted home. It's where she began her 
work with the poor, where she earned the nickname "the saint of the gutters."

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                        The Wisdom of Mother Teresa
                                      
                                      
                                      
               Intense love does not measure; it just gives.
                                      
                                      
                                      
    Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things
                             is a great thing.
                                      
                                      
                                      
    Nakedness is not only for a piece of clothing; nakedness is lack of
    human dignity, and also that beatiful virtue of purity, and lack of
                        that respect for each other.
                                      
                                      
                                      
                            Give until it hurts.
                                      
                                      
                                      
     The world today is hungry not only for bread but hungry for love;
                     hungry to be wanted, to be loved.
                                      
                                      
                                      
   Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in
                         the silence of the heart.
                                      
                                      
                                      
               We have been created to love and to be loved.
                                      
                                      
                                      
   If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace,
                       because you know what you are.
                                      
                                      
                                      
    Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as
                          you have done your best.
                                      
                                      
                                      
    We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.
                                      
                                      
                                      
          If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
                                      
                                      
                                      
      A nation that destroys the life of an unborn child, who has been
    created for living and loving, who has been created in the image of
                      God, is in a tremendous poverty.
                                      
                                      
                                      
   If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love,
                               we will serve.
                                      
                                      
                                      
       We can do no great things; only small things with great love.