Mother Teresa Quotes
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What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.
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We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.
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God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.
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Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.
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My key to heaven is that I loved Jesus in the night.
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Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.
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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.
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Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper
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It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.
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You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.
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When you don't have anything, then you have everything.
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If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.
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All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart
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One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
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I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.
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The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them
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If you cannot feed one hundred hungry people, then just feed one really well.
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Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: "Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you.
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One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.
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At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work.
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All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.
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Nobody can convert you except God.
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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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Who is Jesus to me? Jesus is the Word made Flesh. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the cross. Jesus is the sacrifice offered at holy Mass for the sins of the world and for mine. Jesus is the Word - to be spoken. Jesus is the Truth - to be told. Jesus is the Way - to be walked. Jesus is the Light - to be lit. Jesus is the Life - to be lived. Jesus is the Love - to be loved