Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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My key to heaven is that I loved Jesus in the night.
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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
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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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How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.
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We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.
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It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.
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Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society completely forgotten, completely left alone.
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The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
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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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What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.
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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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Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness.
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You priests are called 'another Christ.'
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There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.
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If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?
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Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
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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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There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love
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I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment.
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Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.
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If you cannot feed one hundred hungry people, then just feed one really well.
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I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.
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Christ prays in me, Christ works in me, Christ thinks in me, Christ looks through my eyes, Christ speaks through my words, Christ works with my hands, Christ walks with my feet, Christ loves with my heart. As St Paul's prayer was: I belong to Christ and nothing will separate me from the love of Christ. It was that oneness, oneness with God in the Holy Spirit.