Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

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• When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

  

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• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  

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• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  

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• I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
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• I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
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• The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

  

  Patch Adams
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  • Same
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• Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

  

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• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

  

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• I came to Christ in my early 20s.

  

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• My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

  

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• The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.

  

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• Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

  

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• Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

  

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• Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.

  

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• 'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
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• I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

  

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• I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

  

  William Booth
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• It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Life
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  • Always

• Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination.

  

  Betty Smith
  • World
  • Believe
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• Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Suffering
  • Christ
  • Helpful