Mother Teresa Quotes
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The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
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There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.
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As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves but does not speak … I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have free hand.
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I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.
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In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.
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We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
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It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
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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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Good works are links that form a chain of love.
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her
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Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.
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Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.
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Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.
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Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.
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All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart
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Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.
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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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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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God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us -- you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His.
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We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.
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Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.
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You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us.
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Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.
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Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.