Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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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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The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.
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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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We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.
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As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.
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How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
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If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?
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If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
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We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
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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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Everything that is not given is lost.
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In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.
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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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We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.
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I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.
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Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa
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Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
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Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.
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Spread your love wherever you go.
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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
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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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It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
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What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.