Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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If you're too busy to pray...you're too busy
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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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I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.
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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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The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.
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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 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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Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
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Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.
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But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult.
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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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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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There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
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I can't help thousands, I can help only the one who stands before me.
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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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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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A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
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Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.
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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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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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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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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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I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.