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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.
Mother Teresa
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To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
Mother Teresa
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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.
Mother Teresa
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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.
Mother Teresa
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Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.
Mother Teresa
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If you're too busy to pray...you're too busy
Mother Teresa
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There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ---Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.
Mother Teresa
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I can't help thousands, I can help only the one who stands before me.
Mother Teresa
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But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult.
Mother Teresa
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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.
Mother Teresa
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Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.
Mother Teresa
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Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.
Mother Teresa
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There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
Mother Teresa
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The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.
Mother Teresa
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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.'
Mother Teresa
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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.
Mother Teresa
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Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.
Mother Teresa
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A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
Mother Teresa
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Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you
Mother Teresa
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
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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
Mother Teresa
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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.
Mother Teresa
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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.
Mother Teresa
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Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God
Mother Teresa
