Mother Teresa Quotes
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Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
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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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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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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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Good works are links that form a chain of love.
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Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.
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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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Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all.
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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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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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If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.
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We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?
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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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Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
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Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
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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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In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.
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May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you... May you be content knowing you are a child of God... Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love. It is there for each and every one of you.
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The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.
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Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.
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To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving.
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A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
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She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way — through this painful interior "darkness" — she tasted their greatest poverty of being "unwanted, unloved, and uncared for."
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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.