“The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So we have to go through the fire.”
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Mother Teresa
“The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
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Mother Teresa
“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”
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Mother Teresa
“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.”
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Mother Teresa
“The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.”
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Mother Teresa
“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."
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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
“He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.”
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Mother Teresa
“Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.”
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Mother Teresa
“The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.”
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Mother Teresa
“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
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Mother Teresa
“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?”
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Mother Teresa
“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.”
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Mother Teresa
“Some people come in our life as blessings. Others come in our life as lessons.”
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Mother Teresa
