Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in the way we walk, the way we receive, the way we serve.
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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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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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If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.
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Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you
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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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Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.
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We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses - tabernacles we call them - and over 4600 nuns. It's simply to serve the poorest of the poor. We are wanted and we have championed those who have nothing, the deprived children of God.
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In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.
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We are at Jesus' disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work in the street, if he wants you to clean the toilets all day, that's all right, everything is all right. We must say, "I belong to you. You can do whatever you like." And this ..is our strength, and this is the joy of the Lord.
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If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who can show him God's love.
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I am sure that all people know deep down inside that the little child in the mother's womb is a human being from the moment of conception, created in the image of God to love and be loved. Let us pray that nobody will be afraid to protect that little child, to help that little child to be born. Jesus said: 'If you receive a little child in my name, you receive me.'
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It takes a checkbook to change the world
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Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me.
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The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.
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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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I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.
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We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.
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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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I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.
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You can and you must expect suffering.
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The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.