Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?
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A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
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I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
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Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
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I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
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A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.
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There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.
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I've never felt the breath of God – you can take that statement literally or metaphorically – more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.
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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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God is a witness that cannot be sworn.
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In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
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Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
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This is the first time in history that we’ve had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God.
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'There is no God,' cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values - is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.
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Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
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God is a loving god.
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What is this, Vassar?!
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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
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I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
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God never sends us more than we can handle.
