Mother Teresa Quotes
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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
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The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.
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Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.
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And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
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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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I can't help thousands, I can help only the one who stands before me.
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The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
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When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love.
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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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Never be so busy as not to think of others.
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You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.
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Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
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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 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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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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Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money.
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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 discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.
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We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
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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 must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
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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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God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.
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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.