Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.
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The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .
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Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.
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I feel called to help individuals, to love each human being. I never think in terms of crowds in general but in terms of persons. Were I to think about crowds, I would never begin anything.
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There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.
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Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.
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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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How much love did you put into what you did?
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Nobody can convert you except God.
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Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.
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God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
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You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.
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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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It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.
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Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a dying man whom she took back to a home where he could die in love and peace. 'I live like an animal in the streets,' the man told her. 'Now I will die like an angel'.
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By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.
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It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.
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O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!
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The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.
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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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Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
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Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
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We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?