“To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
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Mother Teresa
“God hasn't called us to be successful, just faithful.”
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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
“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
“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.”
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Mother Teresa
“Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread.
It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandoned, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty”
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Mother Teresa
“The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.”
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Mother Teresa
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
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Mother Teresa
“We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.”
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Mother Teresa
“Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.”
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Mother Teresa
“Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway.”
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Mother Teresa
“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
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Mother Teresa
“Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.”
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Mother Teresa
