“If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.”
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Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
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Mother Teresa
“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”
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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
“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”
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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
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
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Mother Teresa
“Jesus wants me to tell you again...how much is the love He has for each one of you-beyond all what you can imagine...Not only He loves you, even more--He longs for you. He misses you when you don't come close. He thirsts for you. He loves you always, even when you don't feel worthy...”
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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
“In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”
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Mother Teresa
“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”
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Mother Teresa
“I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.”
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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
