Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.
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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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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
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If you want to pray better, you have to pray more.
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A life not lived for others is not a life.
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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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The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.
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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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All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.
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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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There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.
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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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It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
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The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.
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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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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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The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in my life; in the mass we have Jesus in the appearance of bread. While in the slums we see Christ and touch him in the broken bodies, in the abandoned children.
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We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.
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We cannot really know God if we do not pray.
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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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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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The first step to becoming is to will it.
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The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.