Mother Teresa Quotes
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It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
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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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You are greater than you know.
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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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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.
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Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other's failures - rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God.
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There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
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At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.
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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.
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I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.
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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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We pick up people dying full of worms from the street. We have picked up more than 40,000 of them. If I lift up such a person, clean him, love him and serve him, is it conversion? He has been there like an animal in the street but I am giving him love and he dies peacefully. That peace comes from his heart. That's between him and God.
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I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.
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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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She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .
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Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?
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I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.
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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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The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.
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It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.
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May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
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If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.
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Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa