Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

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• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
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• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
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• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
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• What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• To restore silence is the role of objects.

  

  Samuel Beckett
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• Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love. Prayer is sublime.

  

  Albert Pike
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• In Barnette, we held that a public school student could not be compelled to recite the Pledge; we did not even hint that she could not be compelled to observe respectful silence. . . . Logically, that ought to be the next target for the Court's bulldozer.

  

  Antonin Scalia
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• Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
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• Those who saw him hushed. On Church Street. Liberty. Cortlandt. West Street. Fulton. Vesey. It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

  

  Colum McCann
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• It is on some, but not all, of these misty autumn day-breaks that one may hear the chorus of the quail. The silence is suddenly broken by a dozen contralto voices, no longer able to restrain their praise of the day to come.

  

  Aldo Leopold
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• Grant us the single heart once more That mocks no sacred thing, The Sword of Truth our fathers wore When Thou wast Lord and King. Let darkness unto darkness tell Our deep unspoken prayer; For, while our souls in darkness dwell, We know that Thou art there.

  

  Alfred Noyes
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• True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.

  

  Mary Baker Eddy
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• Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

  

  Mary Baker Eddy
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• There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

  

  Pope John Paul II
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• What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

  

  Joan Miro
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• Silence is better than unmeaning words.

  

  Pythagoras
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• Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
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• 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

  

  David Bowie

• It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.

  

  Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
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• The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Prayer
  • Silence