Mother Teresa Quotes
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West Bengal state Government has decided that non-criminal persons should not be kept in these kind of places and asked us to take care of them. They should live in an atmosphere of love. They need to be loved.
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I can't help thousands, I can help only the one who stands before me.
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And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
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When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love.
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We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?
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We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.
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We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.
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My secret is simple -- I pray.
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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
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In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.
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If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.
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In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.
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God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.
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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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There is no key to happiness; the door is always open
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Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.
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Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it
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We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
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How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
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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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We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved you
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Real prayer is union with God.
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I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.