Mother Teresa Quotes
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Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.
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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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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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I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.
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The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose.
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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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It takes a checkbook to change the world
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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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I remember I picked up a person from the street who was nearly eaten up with maggots, and he said, I have lived like an animal, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.
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Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
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America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.
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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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Spread your love wherever you go.
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What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.
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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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Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy!
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Love to be real, it must cost – it must hurt – it must empty us of self.
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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
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Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs.
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You must give what will cost you something. This, then, is not just giving what you can live without but what you can't live without or don't want to live without, something you really like. Then your gift becomes a sacrifice, which will have value before God. Any sacrifice is useful if it is done out of love. This giving until it hurts - this sacrifice - is what I call love in action.
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One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.
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If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.