Mother Teresa Quotes
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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.
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So many signatures for such a small heart.
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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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I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
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Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.
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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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It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.
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Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.
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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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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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The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy....We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is in love with God. All over the world people are hungry and thirsty for God's love. We meet that hunger by spreading joy. Joy is one of the best safeguards against temptation.
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We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.
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The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.
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Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
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Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together.
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Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.
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I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.
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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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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
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Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.
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I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
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The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth. Each moment that you spend with Jesus will deepen your union with Him and make your soul everlastingly more glorious and beautiful in Heaven, and will help bring about everlasting peace on earth