Mother Teresa Quotes
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We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.
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Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor
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When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love.
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Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it
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People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.
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We are all pencils in the hand of God.
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It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
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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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The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence in our Constitution that says: 'We will allow the good God to make plans for the future - for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come and we have only today to make Him known, loved and served.' So we do not worry about the future.
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God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
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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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Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action
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Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses
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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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I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
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Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.
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Give people not only your care, but also your heart.
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People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.
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Love – the more you share with others, the more you have.
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Brothers, Fathers and Sisters - all of us in the Missionaries of Charity are doing the same. All of us have been created by God to love and to be loved. We are involved in this work. When you do that, there is joy, unity and love.
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It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.
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Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.
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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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Everything that is not given is lost.