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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• Praying
• 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

• Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Evil

• I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

  

  Jon Brion

• When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.

  

  John le Carre
  • Up
  • Joy
  • Childhood

• My association with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is sort of predated by an effort that we were a part of here in New York City regarding the reaction to this 1954 Supreme Court [Brown v Board of Education] decision.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Education
  • City
  • Christian

• For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Faith
  • Christian

• 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