Mother Teresa Quotes
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Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.
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Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor.
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Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!
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God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.
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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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Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all.
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Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
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I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day.
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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.
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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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Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.
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In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.
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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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Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.
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God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.
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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
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And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.
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The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything.
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Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. Ask and seek and you heart will grow big enough to receive Him and to keep Him as your own. Wherever God has put you, that is your vocation. It is not what we do but how much love we put into it.
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Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
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The simplest way of becoming his light is by being kind and loving, thoughtful, and sincere with others: 'By this they will know that you are his disciples.'
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Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.
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If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.