Mother Teresa Quotes
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Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy!
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Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.
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Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.
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The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.
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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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What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
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Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give the sick, the way you lift a dying man, the way you feed a baby, the way you teach a dull child, the way you give medicine to a sufferer of leprosy, the joy with which you smile at your own at home - all this is God's love in the world today.
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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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Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you
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I can't help thousands, I can help only the one who stands before me.
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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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I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
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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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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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If you're too busy to pray...you're too busy
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No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?
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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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Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility
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"In each of our lives Jesus comes as the Bread of Life - to be eaten, to be consumed by us. This is how He loves us. Then Jesus comes in our human life as the hungry one, the other, hoping to be fed with the Bread of our life, our hearts by loving, and our hands by serving. In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'
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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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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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I am sure that all people know deep down inside that the little child in the mother's womb is a human being from the moment of conception, created in the image of God to love and be loved. Let us pray that nobody will be afraid to protect that little child, to help that little child to be born. Jesus said: 'If you receive a little child in my name, you receive me.'
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Be faithful in the little things.