Mother Teresa Quotes
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We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.
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There are only two ways: either we love – and love in action is service – or we put hatred into action and destroy.
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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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All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.
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Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.
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Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.
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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 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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These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.
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Love – the more you share with others, the more you have.
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I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all do like that.
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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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These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.
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There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
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Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!
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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
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Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.
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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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Why can't there be love that never gets tired?
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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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God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.
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You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy.
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It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.
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Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.