“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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Mother Teresa
“To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
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Mother Teresa
“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
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Mother Teresa
“Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.”
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Mother Teresa
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
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Mother Teresa
“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.”
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Mother Teresa
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers”
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Mother Teresa
“One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.”
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Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you don't have time to love them.”
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Mother Teresa
“You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.”
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Mother Teresa
“If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.”
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Mother Teresa
“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.”
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Mother Teresa
“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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Mother Teresa
“There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.”
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Mother Teresa
“I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.”
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Mother Teresa
