Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.

Mother Teresa

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• Clarity
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• I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • American
  • Democracy
  • Chain

• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Rules
  • Old

• I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • World
  • Happy
  • Performance

• I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.'

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Free

• People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • People
  • Life
  • Inspired

• I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Respect
  • Like
  • Feel

• If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • Coffee
  • Tea

• Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Two
  • Unity
  • Sides

• Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Writing

• For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.

  

  Polybius
  • Violence
  • Poverty

• I didn't have a fraternity-like experience. I mean, I grew up with an older brother and a lot of male cousins and we were very physical with each other. We were very rambunctious when we were kids. But I never thought much - nor did I have reason to think much - about institutionalized hazing. But I think there's a reason young men are drawn to it.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Up
  • Men
  • Experience

• I grew up watching the films of 'Carousel' and 'Oklahoma' and 'The Music Man' and 'My Fair Lady' - all the classic musicals of that golden era, The sort of more modern musical theater, or what was modern when I was at a ripe teenage age, I wasn't really listening to that stuff. I was really more raised on the classics.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Up
  • Music
  • Age

• I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.

  

  David Talbot
  • Important

• I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • People
  • Music

• I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

  

  Colin Firth
  • People

• Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Life
  • Art
  • Hope

• I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.

  

  Bob Ainsworth

• I know, it was a little bit out of control, but hey. It was all fun.

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
  • Fun
  • Control

• She doesn't seem to have been the society type or one to flaunt her wealth, but she lived well.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • She
  • Society
  • Wealth

• Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • Trying
  • Power
  • Free

• The Quakers sent me books, from which I learnt how they had, years ago, established beyond doubt the duty for a Christian of fulfilling the command of non-resistance to evil by force, and had exposed the error of the Church's teaching in allowing war and capital punishment.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • War
  • Church
  • Evil

• History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God. This statement of a nineteenth-century historian sums up the responsibility of the Christian teacher of history, for he who would teach history or any subject matter rightly, must teach it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God.

  

  D. A. Fisher
  • Education
  • Responsibility
  • Christian

• The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Christian
  • Christianity
  • Withdrawing

• I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Christian
  • Praying
  • Clarity