Mother Teresa

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The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Jesus
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Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Life
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The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Giving
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A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Worth Living
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If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Catholic
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Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Joy
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By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Want
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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.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Self
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Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Giving
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But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Mother
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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
Collection: Loyalty
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We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Love You
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Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Jesus
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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
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Husband
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Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Empty
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There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful together
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Beautiful
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We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Spring
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Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Gratitude
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In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Grace
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O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Light
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Jesus wants me to tell you again...how much is the love He has for each one of you-beyond all what you can imagine...Not only He loves you, even more - He longs for you. He misses you when you don't come close. He thirsts for you. He loves you always, even when you don't feel worthy.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Jesus
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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.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Dog
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If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Lonely
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Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Spiritual
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If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Thinking
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Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe. —contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation. —universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Heart
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Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Forgiveness
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The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: India
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The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Thinking
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Love should be as natural as living and breathing.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Breathing
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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.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Prayer
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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
Collection: Life
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Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Giving
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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Happiness
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If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Faith
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If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Selfish
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The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Motivational
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We are not here to be successful, we are here to be FAITHFUL
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Success
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Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Hands
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May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Love You
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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
Collection: Mother
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If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Successful
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Mother
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I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their human dignity, which is neither less nor different from the dignity of any other human being.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Love
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Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Religious
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Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Mother
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I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Family
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Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Flower
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Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Love