Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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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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When we judge others we leave no room to love them.
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The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.
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You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.
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We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.
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We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
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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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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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Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.
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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.
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It takes a checkbook to change the world
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No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
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Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.
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Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.
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Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.
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Small things done with great love will change the world.
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I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.
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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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Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.
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Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.