Mother Teresa Quotes
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Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.
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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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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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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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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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And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
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We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.
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The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence in our Constitution that says: 'We will allow the good God to make plans for the future - for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come and we have only today to make Him known, loved and served.' So we do not worry about the future.
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I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.
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We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.
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Your spirit is the duster of any spider web. Behind every finish line, there is a start one. Behind every success, there is another challenge. While you are alive, be alive. If you miss what you once did, do it again. Don't live in yellow photos... Continue although everyone expects you to give up. Don't let oxide the iron that is inside you. Do that instead of pity, and they will respect you. When because of years you cannot run, jog. When you cannot jog, walk. When you cannot walk, use a cane. But never stop!
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We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.
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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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Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.
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I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.
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We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
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There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.
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Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity will lead to peace.
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Even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.
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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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Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
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Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see Jesus around us.
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He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.
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We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses - tabernacles we call them - and over 4600 nuns. It's simply to serve the poorest of the poor. We are wanted and we have championed those who have nothing, the deprived children of God.