Mother Teresa Quotes
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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
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Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.
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You can't do God's work without suffering.
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We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.
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If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.
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Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.
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There are others who take up that liberating role. I have no time to spend for that.
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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're too busy to pray...you're too busy
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I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.
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Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.
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So many signatures for such a small heart.
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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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Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.
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By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion.
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When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now. This is why you should ask your parish priest to have perpetual adoration in your parish. I beg the Blessed Mother to touch the hearts of all parish priests that they may have perpetual Eucharistic adoration in their parishes, and that it may spread throughout the entire world
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The family that prays together stays together, and if they stay together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And works of love are always works of peace.
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Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
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I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.
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Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other's failures - rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God.
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We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.
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Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.
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Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.
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People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.