Mother Teresa Quotes
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If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World. But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.
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If you want to pray better, you have to pray more.
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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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One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
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I was asked why I did not give a rod with which to fish, in the hands of the poor, rather than give the fish itself as this makes them remain poor. So I told them: The people whom we pick up are not able to stand with a rod. So today I will give them fish and when they are able to stand, then I shall send them to you and you can give them the rod. That is your job. Let me do my work today.
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Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved... To love a person without any conditions, without any expectations. Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace. To love, it is necessary to give. To give, it is necessary to be free from selfishness.
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Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.
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Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
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Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
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Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.
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Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus
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A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.
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When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.
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A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
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Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.
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Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, do his work through your hands, for you will be all-powerful with him to strengthen you.
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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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There is no key to happiness; the door is always open
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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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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
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Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give the sick, the way you lift a dying man, the way you feed a baby, the way you teach a dull child, the way you give medicine to a sufferer of leprosy, the joy with which you smile at your own at home - all this is God's love in the world today.
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I have never found a problem with people from different religions praying together. What I have found is that people are just hungry for God, and be they Christian or Muslim we invite them to pray with us.