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I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?Mother Teresa
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.Mother Teresa
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It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.Mother Teresa
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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.Mother Teresa
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I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.Mother Teresa
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Work without love is slavery.Mother Teresa
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The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is PeaceMother Teresa
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Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.Mother Teresa
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Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.Mother Teresa
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Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.Mother Teresa
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A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.Mother Teresa
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Peace begins with a smile..Mother Teresa
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I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.Mother Teresa
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.Mother Teresa
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I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.Mother Teresa
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There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.Mother Teresa
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In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.Mother Teresa
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God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.Mother Teresa
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The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love.Mother Teresa
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Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.Mother Teresa
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I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.Mother Teresa
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Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.Mother Teresa
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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.Mother Teresa
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Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.Mother Teresa
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.Mother Teresa
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Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.Mother Teresa
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Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?Mother Teresa
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I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn't expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.Mother Teresa
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We are all pencils in the hand of God.Mother Teresa
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I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.Mother Teresa
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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.Mother Teresa
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I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.Mother Teresa
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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.Mother Teresa
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It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother TheresaMother Teresa
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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.Mother Teresa
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God hasn't called us to be successful, just faithful.Mother Teresa
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We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.Mother Teresa
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In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.Mother Teresa
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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.Mother Teresa
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Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.Mother Teresa
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The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.Mother Teresa
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If I look at the mass I will never act.Mother Teresa
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Joy is strength.Mother Teresa
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Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.Mother Teresa
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If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.Mother Teresa
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Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.Mother Teresa
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Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.Mother Teresa
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How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ~ Mother Teresa of CalcuttaMother Teresa
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Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me." By yourself you can do nothing, have nothing but sin, weakness and misery. All the gifts of nature and grace you have them from God.Mother Teresa
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Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.Mother Teresa
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May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.Mother Teresa
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In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.Mother Teresa
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Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.Mother Teresa
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You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have.Mother Teresa
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It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.Mother Teresa
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These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest.Mother Teresa
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Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?Mother Teresa
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I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.Mother Teresa
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Let Him empty and transform you ;and afterwards fill the chalice of your hearts to the brim, that you in your turn, may give of your abundance. Seek Him. Knowledge will make you strong as death. Love Him trustfully without looking back, without fear. Believe that Jesus and Jesus alone is life. Serve Jesus, casting aside and forgetting all that troubles or worries you, make loved the love that is not loved.Mother Teresa
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He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.Mother Teresa
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Give, but give until it hurts.Mother Teresa
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One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.Mother Teresa
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Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.Mother Teresa
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Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.Mother Teresa
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.Mother Teresa
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In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.Mother Teresa
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I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.Mother Teresa
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Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.Mother Teresa
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I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.Mother Teresa
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I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.Mother Teresa
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.Mother Teresa
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The moment passed – but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. — But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.Mother Teresa
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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.Mother Teresa
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The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.Mother Teresa
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Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.Mother Teresa
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A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels–loved and wanted.Mother Teresa
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You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.Mother Teresa
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Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.Mother Teresa
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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.Mother Teresa
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It is our emptiness and lowliness that God needs and not our plenitude. These are a few of the ways we can practice humility: Speak as little as possible of oneself. Mind one's own business. Avoid curiosity. Do not want to manage other people's affairs. Accept contradiction and correction cheerfully. Pass over the mistakes of others. Accept blame when innocent. Yield to the will of others. Accept insults and injuries. Accept being slighted, forgotten, and disliked. Be kind and gentle even under provocation. Do not seek to be specially loved and admired. Never stand on one's dignity. Yield in discussion even when one is right. Choose always the hardest. .Mother Teresa
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We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him – not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything – to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.Mother Teresa
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Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.Mother Teresa
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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thingMother Teresa
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At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.Mother Teresa
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If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.Mother Teresa
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We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred... If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?Mother Teresa
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Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.Mother Teresa
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Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.Mother Teresa
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At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern.Mother Teresa
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We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.Mother Teresa
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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.Mother Teresa
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I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.Mother Teresa
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When you judge someone you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa
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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.Mother Teresa
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Never be so busy as not to think of others.Mother Teresa
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Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.Mother Teresa
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If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother TeresaMother Teresa
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God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.Mother Teresa
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I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.Mother Teresa
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If you judge people you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa