Mother Teresa Quotes
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Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.
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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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We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
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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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Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.
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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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Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.
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There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
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Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.
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Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of 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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You can't do God's work without suffering.
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Spread your love wherever you go.
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Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
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Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.
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If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.
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Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
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Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.
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It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
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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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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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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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Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together.