Mother Teresa Quotes
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Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
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A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
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Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.
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Be not afraid. God loves you & wants us to love one another as He loves us. As miserable, weak and sinful as we are, He loves us with an infinitely faithful love.
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Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.
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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.
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Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.
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My key to heaven is that I loved Jesus in the night.
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We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.
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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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She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.
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At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.
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Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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If people spent one hour per week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
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I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.
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Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.
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Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
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Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper
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It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.
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We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love. When they are brought to our home, they feel they are in their own homes, with their own families. Now, I am trying to open a house for AIDS victims here (in Delhi). The people are dying because of it.
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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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Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.