Mother Teresa Quotes
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Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
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Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.
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It takes a checkbook to change the world
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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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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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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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Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to 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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Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs.
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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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Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
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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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Love to be real, it must cost – it must hurt – it must empty us of self.
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Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa
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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 want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.
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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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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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Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy!
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We must love prayer. It widens the heart to the point of making it capable of containing the gift that God makes of himself. Ask and seek, and your heart will be widened to welcome him and to keep him within itself.
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Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.
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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.