Mother Teresa Quotes
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Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.
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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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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
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Do you really know the living Jesus - not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard the loving words He speaks to you?... The devil may try to use the hurts of life, and sometimes our own mistakes - to make you feel it is impossible that Jesus really loves you, is really cleaving to you. This is a danger for all of us. And so sad, because it is completely the opposite of what Jesus is really wanting, waiting to tell you. Not only that He loves you, but even more - He longs for you.
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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
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A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.
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Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.
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Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.
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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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If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?
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If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.
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Any work of love brings a person face to face with God.
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God is never late, but rarely early.
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It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.
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One day I met a lady who was dying of cancer in a most terrible condition. And I told her, I say, "You know, this terrible pain is only the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you."
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If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you nor I are generous enough. It is because we are not instruments of love in the hands of God. We do not recognize Christ when once again He appears to us in the hungry man, in the lonely woman, in the child who is looking for a place to get warm.
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The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.
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Live simply so others may simply live.
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The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
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Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.
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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
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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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Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
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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.