Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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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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Be faithful in the little things.
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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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Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.
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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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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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You are greater than you know.
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If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World. But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.
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To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.
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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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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
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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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Why can't there be love that never gets tired?
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Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.
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Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power.
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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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Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.
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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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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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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
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Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.
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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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We cannot really know God if we do not pray.