“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”
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Mother Teresa
“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.”
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Mother Teresa
“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.”
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Mother Teresa
“God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.”
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Mother Teresa
“Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”
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Mother Teresa
“The biggest diease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody.”
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Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
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Mother Teresa
“God has not called me to be successful. He has called me to be faithful.”
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Mother Teresa
“There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”
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Mother Teresa
“Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.”
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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
“In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”
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Mother Teresa
