Mother Teresa Quotes
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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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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The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
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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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How much love did you put into what you did?
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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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There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
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You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.
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May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.
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The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose.
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Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.
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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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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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Never be so busy as not to think of others.
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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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Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God
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Purity is the fruit of prayer.
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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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If you want to pray better, you have to pray more.
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Each time anyone comes in contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love.
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Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.
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Jesus has said "Come, blessed of my Father, take the seat in the kingdom prepared for you, because I was hungry you gave me food, I was thirsty you have me drink, I was naked you clothed me, I was homeless you took me home and I was sick you visited me." And we are just doing that.
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A life not lived for others is not a life.
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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.