Mother Teresa Quotes
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The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family
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I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.
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We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.
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Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.
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A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.
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The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
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The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'
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In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India – I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving.
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Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. Ask and seek and you heart will grow big enough to receive Him and to keep Him as your own. Wherever God has put you, that is your vocation. It is not what we do but how much love we put into it.
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Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
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I always say "if you are afraid of them (the unborn), give them to me. Please, don't kill them."
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Keep your heart pure. A pure heart is necessary to see God in each other. If you see God in each other, there is love for each other, then there is peace.
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Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.
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And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.
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If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?
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Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
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You priests are called 'another Christ.'
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Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.
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Together we can do great things.
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Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.
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Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever a person needs in the moment. The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time ... Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs ... We feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but that ocean would be less without that drop.
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I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the streets and I find the same Jesus hidden in the dying destitute, the AIDS patients, the lepers, the abandoned children, the hungry, and the homeless. It's the same Jesus.
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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.