Mother Teresa Quotes
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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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Just show up and things will happen.
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When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them
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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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The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.
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When we judge others we leave no room to love 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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Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.
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My mother tongue is Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.
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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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It takes a checkbook to change the world
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You can and you must expect suffering.
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A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.
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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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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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We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.
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Faith keeps the person who keeps the faith.