Mother Teresa Quotes
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I belong to Jesus. He must have the right to use me without consulting me.
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Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.
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If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.
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Life is a challenge, we must take it.
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None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
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... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.
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All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.
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The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.
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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.
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If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
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If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.
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There is no great difference in reality between one country and another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, they may have a different education or position; but they are all the same. They are all people to be loved.
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Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
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I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
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To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.
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Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
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Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.
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Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace.
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Give! Give the love you have received to those around you. You must love with your time, your hands, and your hearts. You need to share all that you have.
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I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.
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People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
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My television is the tabernacle.
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.