Mother Teresa Quotes
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God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
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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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There is no key to happiness; the door is always open
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My key to heaven is that I loved Jesus in the night.
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We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.
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It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so it destroys the gift of love in him or her. In loving, the husband and wife must turn the attention to each other as happens in natural family planning, and not to self, as happens in contraception. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows easily . . . And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.
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The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.
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When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.
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There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.
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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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If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions. Be humble and you will never be disturbed. Remember St. Aloysius, who said he would continue to play billiards even if he knew he was going to die. Do you play well? Sleep well? Eat well? These are duties. Nothing is small for God.
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Behold , I have graven you upon the palm of my hand, that is what Jesus came on earth to do: to proclaim, to give us the Good News that God loves us, that we are precious to Him.
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He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.
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You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.
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You priests are called 'another Christ.'
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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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Work without love is slavery.
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Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.
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Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care. Deepen your love for one another by praying for each other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have received in prayer and reading.
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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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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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Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a dying man whom she took back to a home where he could die in love and peace. 'I live like an animal in the streets,' the man told her. 'Now I will die like an angel'.
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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.