Mother Teresa Quotes
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How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.
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In reality, there is only one true prayer, only one substantial prayer: Christ himself. There is only one voice which rises above the face of the earth, the voice of Christ. Prayer is oneness with Christ.
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Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.
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A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.
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I am busy with my work. My path is clear. I see somebody dying, I pick him up. I find somebody hungry, I give him food. He can love and be loved. I don't look at his color, I don't look at his religion.
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We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
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In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year. But we never refuse anybody. Everybody is most welcome.
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The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.
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One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
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We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.
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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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Together we can do great things.
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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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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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I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all do like that.
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People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.
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She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.
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Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.
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There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.
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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
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My key to heaven is that I loved Jesus in the night.
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I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.