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We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else
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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.
Mother Teresa
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You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.
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A Christian is the dwelling place of the living God. He created me, he chose me, He came to dwell in me, because he wanted me. Now that you have known how much God is in love with you it is but natural that you spend the rest of your life radiating that love.
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God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.
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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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I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all do like that.
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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.
Mother Teresa
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If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
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We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.
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The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
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How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.
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One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.
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Life isn't about the cherished moments it is also about the hard ones. Just knowing each day that you will arise with the bright shining sun in your eyes. And end with the cool breeze upon your face as you slowly reflect the day that passed by.
Mother Teresa
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Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.
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The ocean is made of drops.
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If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled
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In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.
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Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.
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If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.
Mother Teresa
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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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If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.
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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.
Mother Teresa -
Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.
Mother Teresa