Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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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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Never Let Anyone Come to You Without Coming Away Better and Happier
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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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Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.
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There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
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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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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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In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.
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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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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
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Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.
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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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It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
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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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I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.
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Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
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Love – the more you share with others, the more you have.
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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
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I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.
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When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. 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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Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.
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In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India – I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving.
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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.