“There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful together”
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Mother Teresa
“One filled with joy preaches without preaching.”
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Mother Teresa
“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
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Mother Teresa
“Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.”
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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
“In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.”
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Mother Teresa
“It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”
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Mother Teresa
“To the good God nothing is little because He is so great and we so small- that is why He stoops down and takes the trouble to make those little things for us- to give us a chance to prove our love for Him.”
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Mother Teresa
“Let Him empty and transform you ;and afterwards fill the chalice of your hearts to the brim, that you in your turn, may give of your abundance. Seek Him. Knowledge will make you strong as death. Love Him trustfully without looking back, without fear. Believe that Jesus and Jesus alone is life. Serve Jesus, casting aside and forgetting all that troubles or worries you, make loved the love that is not loved.”
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Mother Teresa
“being unwanted is the biggest disease in the world”
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Mother Teresa
“You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have.”
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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
“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
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”
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Mother Teresa
