Mother Teresa Quotes
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We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.
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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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Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.
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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
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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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Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity will lead to peace.
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A family that prays together stays together. As we are united at this moment, let us join also the prayer of all and everyone. What you can do I cannot do. And what I can do you cannot do. But all of us together are doing something beautiful for God.
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Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.
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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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God is never late, but rarely early.
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The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.
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The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.
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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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All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.
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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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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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My secret is simple -- I pray.
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We cannot really know God if we do not pray.
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People everywhere are the same; they are all people to be loved. They are all hungry for love.
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The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in my life; in the mass we have Jesus in the appearance of bread. While in the slums we see Christ and touch him in the broken bodies, in the abandoned children.
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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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The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.
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Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money.
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Love – the more you share with others, the more you have.