Mother Teresa Quotes
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Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.
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God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.
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If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you nor I are generous enough. It is because we are not instruments of love in the hands of God. We do not recognize Christ when once again He appears to us in the hungry man, in the lonely woman, in the child who is looking for a place to get warm.
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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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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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Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.
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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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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
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We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
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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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On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.
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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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There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.
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Every time I ask for visa, they (USA) give me visa for five years. I have never had any problem in getting a visa to any nation.
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In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.
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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
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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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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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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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The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.
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Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.
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For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves.
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Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.
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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.