Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

We are at Jesus' disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work in the street, if he wants you to clean the toilets all day, that's all right, everything is all right. We must say, "I belong to you. You can do whatever you like." And this ..is our strength, and this is the joy of the Lord.

Mother Teresa

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• Suffering
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• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Literature

• I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Pretty
  • Hell
  • Hospital

• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• Our nation is today a powerful nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Nation

• That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Action

• The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Home

• I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Myself
  • Sleep
  • Depression

• You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Work
  • Blessed
  • Strength

• My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Music
  • Father

• Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Song
  • Door
  • Finish

• The American family will fear less, our national security will be more assured, and we won‘t let the Venezuelas or Nigerias or the Saudi Arabias or the Irans jerk us around by the gas nozzle the way they are doing it now.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Family
  • American
  • Fear

• Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Truth
  • Exercise

• We are like figures which some great demonstrator draws upon the blackboard of Time. A problem is to be solved, without doubt; what the problem is, we, the figures, cannot know and do not need to know; all we know is that sooner or later we shall be sponged off the board and other figures take our places, and the demonstration go on.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Time
  • Great
  • Doubt

• Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • View
  • Conditions

• I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.

  

  Mark Shriver
  • Family
  • Together
  • Parents

• War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • War

• You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.

  

  David Dunn
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Football

• What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.

  

  Emily Procter
  • Friends

• Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Hate
  • Crowds
  • Retiring

• I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Hope

• The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Problem
  • Search
  • Cultures

• We are at Jesus' disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work in the street, if he wants you to clean the toilets all day, that's all right, everything is all right. We must say, "I belong to you. You can do whatever you like." And this ..is our strength, and this is the joy of the Lord.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Joy
  • Jesus
  • Suffering