Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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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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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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All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.
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In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year. But we never refuse anybody. Everybody is most welcome.
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God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.
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Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.
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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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Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.
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He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.
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Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.
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I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the streets and I find the same Jesus hidden in the dying destitute, the AIDS patients, the lepers, the abandoned children, the hungry, and the homeless. It's the same Jesus.
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Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.
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I have come to you, Jesus, to take your touch before I begin my day. Let your eyes rest upon my eyes for a while let me take to my work the assurance of your friendship. Fill my mind to last through the desert of noise. Let your blessed sunshine fill the peaks of my thoughts. And give me strength for those who need me.
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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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Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
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We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.
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I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.
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We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.
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Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life.
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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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We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God.
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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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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.