Mother Teresa Quotes
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Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, do his work through your hands, for you will be all-powerful with him to strengthen you.
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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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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
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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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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
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How much love did you put into what you did?
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You can't do God's work without suffering.
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The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.
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You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.
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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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Life's a song,sing it
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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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May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.
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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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God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.
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Stay very close to Our Lady. If you do this, you can do great things for God and the good of people.
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There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ---Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.
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Each time anyone comes in contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love.
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We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.
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Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus
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We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God.
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Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.
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Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you