Mother Teresa Quotes
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We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved you
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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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Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?
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I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.
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The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved.
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People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.
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Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.
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Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other – it doesn't matter who it is – and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.
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If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve
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Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
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We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.
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I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
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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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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
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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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To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
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How much love did you put into what you did?
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Each time anyone comes in contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love.
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In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion.
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If you want to pray better, you have to pray more.
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Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.
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In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.
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I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
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Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.