“In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”
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Mother Teresa
“love only variously everyday
The meaning of love”
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Mother Teresa
“I hope that what you give me comes not from your surplus but it is the fruit of a sacrifice made for the love of God. You must give what costs you, go without something you like, then you will truly be brothers to the poor who are deprived of even the things they need.”
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Mother Teresa
“If a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me - there is nothing between.”
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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
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
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Mother Teresa
“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
“When you don't have anything, then you have everything.”
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Mother Teresa
“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.”
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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
“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
“I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.”
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Mother Teresa
“Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.”
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Mother Teresa