Mother Teresa Quotes
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We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.
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God is never late, but rarely early.
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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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Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses
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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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If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.
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Be faithful in the little things.
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Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.
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Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
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There are others who take up that liberating role. I have no time to spend for that.
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I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.
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Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.
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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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I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.
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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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We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the joy and the energy to do what they are doing?' The Eucharist involves more than just receiving; it also involves satisfying the hunger of Christ. He says, 'Come to Me.' He is hungry for souls.
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Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.
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May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.
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When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.
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Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.
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One thing I ask you to do, you people who have the pen in your hand, allow God to use you so that you never write anything that will destroy, that will hurt, but always take the trouble to write something beautiful, to help the people to see better, to love better, to come closer... to each other.
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You are greater than you know.
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.