“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
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Mother Teresa
“I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.”
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Mother Teresa
“One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.”
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Mother Teresa
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
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Mother Teresa
“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.”
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Mother Teresa
“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
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Mother Teresa
“When you don't have anything, then you have everything.”
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Mother Teresa
“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
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Mother Teresa
“The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.”
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Mother Teresa
“We need to find God and God cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees and flowers and grass—grow in silence. See the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.”
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Mother Teresa
“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
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Mother Teresa
“I don’t think there is anyone who needs God’s help and grace as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day. If the day had even more hours, then I would need His help and grace during those hours as well.
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Mother Teresa
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody”
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Mother Teresa
“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.”
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Mother Teresa
