Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
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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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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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You know my God. My God is called love.
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Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.
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The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
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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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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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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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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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God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.
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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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To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
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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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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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Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
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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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There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.
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If you're too busy to pray...you're too busy
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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
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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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I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.
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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.