Mother Teresa Quotes
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When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.
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I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.
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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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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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I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.
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The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.
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If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
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Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word
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Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.
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Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.
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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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Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.
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Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
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Conversion is not only changing the faith. Conversion is changing the heart and working over there is the grace of God. Then only comes the question of change of faith. Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.
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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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Together we can do great things.
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To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.
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Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.
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Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.
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Our Father, here I am, at your disposal, your child, to use me to continue your loving the world, by giving Jesus to me and through me, to each other that we allow Jesus to love in us and through us with the love with which His Father loves him.
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Our hours of adoration will be special hours of reparation for sins, and intercession for the needs of the whole world, exposing the sin-sick and suffering humanity to the healing, sustaining and transforming rays of Jesus, radiating from the Eucharist.
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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.