Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
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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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God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.
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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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Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
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Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.
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Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.
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Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.
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Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.
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I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
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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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If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World. But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.
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When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now. This is why you should ask your parish priest to have perpetual adoration in your parish. I beg the Blessed Mother to touch the hearts of all parish priests that they may have perpetual Eucharistic adoration in their parishes, and that it may spread throughout the entire world
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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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It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.
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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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A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.
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I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.
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We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God.
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Spread your love wherever you go.
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Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.
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Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today.
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To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven.