Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.
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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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Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
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I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.
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Why can't there be love that never gets tired?
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Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility
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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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Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
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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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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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Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.
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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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What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.
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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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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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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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Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a dying man whom she took back to a home where he could die in love and peace. 'I live like an animal in the streets,' the man told her. 'Now I will die like an angel'.
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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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Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.
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The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.
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When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.
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You know my God. My God is called love.
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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.