Mother Teresa Quotes
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Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you and I! The current is God! We have the power to allow the current to flow through us and thus to generate the light of the world: JESUS - or to refuse to be used and, thus, allow the darkness to spread.
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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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Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
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Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.
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I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.
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You know my God. My God is called love.
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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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Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
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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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Everything that is not given is lost.
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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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The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
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Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hearts and see if there is any unforgiven hurt -- any unforgotten bitterness! It is easy to love those who are far away. It isn't always easy to love those who are right next to us. It is easier to offer food to the hungry than to answer the lonely suffering of someone who lacks love right in one
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You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.
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But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult.
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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
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I can't help thousands, I can help only the one who stands before me.
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It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love.
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If you're too busy to pray...you're too busy
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People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.
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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 until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.
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What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.