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I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.
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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.
Mother Teresa
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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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What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.
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If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you nor I are generous enough. It is because we are not instruments of love in the hands of God. We do not recognize Christ when once again He appears to us in the hungry man, in the lonely woman, in the child who is looking for a place to get warm.
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Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Mother Teresa -
Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
Mother Teresa -
Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God.
Mother Teresa
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Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
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Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.
Mother Teresa -
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
Mother Teresa -
If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.
Mother Teresa -
We cannot really know God if we do not pray.
Mother Teresa -
But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult.
Mother Teresa
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Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship
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If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
Mother Teresa -
I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.
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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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The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.
Mother Teresa -
Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action
Mother Teresa
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In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.
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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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"In each of our lives Jesus comes as the Bread of Life - to be eaten, to be consumed by us. This is how He loves us. Then Jesus comes in our human life as the hungry one, the other, hoping to be fed with the Bread of our life, our hearts by loving, and our hands by serving. In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.
Mother Teresa