Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.
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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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To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
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We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.
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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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Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.
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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
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Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.
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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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We cannot really know God if we do not pray.
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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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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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I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
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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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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
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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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We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family
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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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Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see Jesus around us.
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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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I have never found a problem with people from different religions praying together. What I have found is that people are just hungry for God, and be they Christian or Muslim we invite them to pray with us.
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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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Stay very close to Our Lady. If you do this, you can do great things for God and the good of people.