“Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.”
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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
“I have more often as my companion "darkness." And when the night becomes very thick- and it seems to me as if I will end up in hell- then I simply offer myself to Jesus.”
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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
“The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.”
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Mother Teresa
“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”
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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
“being unwanted is the biggest disease in the world”
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Mother Teresa
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
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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
“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”
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Mother Teresa
“I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts...”
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Mother Teresa
“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.”
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Mother Teresa