“Deliver me, O Jesus, From the desire of being loved, From the desire of being extolled, From the desire of being honored, From the desire of being praised, From the desire of being preferred, From the desire of being consulted, From the desire of being approved, From the desire of being popular, From the fear of being humiliated, From the fear of being despised, From the fear of suffering rebukes, From the fear of being calumniated, From the fear of being forgotten, From the fear of being wronged, From the fear of being ridiculed, From the fear of being suspected.”
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Mother Teresa
“Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.”
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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.”
―
Mother Teresa
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody”
―
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
“Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”
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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”
―
Mother Teresa
“God has not called me to be successful; He has called me to be faithful.”
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Mother Teresa
“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
―
Mother Teresa
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
―
Mother Teresa
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
―
Mother Teresa
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.”
―
Mother Teresa
