Mother Teresa Quotes
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I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'
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To love others as God loves you, that is the measure of success
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If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.
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I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever he wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it.
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There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
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Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.
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The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you.
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The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.
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Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
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Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.
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Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.
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Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
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Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.
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Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and for what he is calling me?' He answered, 'You will know by your happiness. If you are happy with the idea that God calls you to serve him and your neighbour, this will be the proof of your vocation.'
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My prayer for you is that you may grow in the likeness of Christ, being real carriers of God's love and that you really bring his presence, first, into your own family, then, to the next door neighbor, the street you we live in, the town we live in, the country we live, then only, in the whole world, that living example of God's presence.
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In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.
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One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
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Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.
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Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.
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Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service.
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Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.
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Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.
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If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.
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It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.