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Even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.
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The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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I love all religions. ... If people become better Hindus, better Muslims, better Buddhists by our acts of love, then there is something else growing there." She upheld that there are many ways to God': "All is God - Buddists, Hindus, Christians, etc., all have access to the same God."
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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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By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.
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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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Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.
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Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
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Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
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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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When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.
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All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.
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She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .
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In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
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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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Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God
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I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.
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Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.
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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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Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim's body to bury it, Hindus come and take away the dead to be cremated and Christians come and bury their dead.
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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.
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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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I was asked why I did not give a rod with which to fish, in the hands of the poor, rather than give the fish itself as this makes them remain poor. So I told them: The people whom we pick up are not able to stand with a rod. So today I will give them fish and when they are able to stand, then I shall send them to you and you can give them the rod. That is your job. Let me do my work today.
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