Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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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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I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
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We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.
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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
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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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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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To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.
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The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.
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A life not lived for others is not a life.
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When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.
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The first step to becoming is to will it.
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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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God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.
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We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses - tabernacles we call them - and over 4600 nuns. It's simply to serve the poorest of the poor. We are wanted and we have championed those who have nothing, the deprived children of God.
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If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?
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I have never found a problem with people from different religions praying together. What I have found is that people are just hungry for God, and be they Christian or Muslim we invite them to pray with us.
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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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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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The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.
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Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together.
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It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
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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