“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
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Mother Teresa
“If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.”
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Mother Teresa
“We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?”
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Mother Teresa
“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.”
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Mother Teresa
“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.”
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Mother Teresa
“God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.”
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Mother Teresa
“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
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Mother Teresa
“A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.”
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Mother Teresa
“We need to find God and God cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees and flowers and grass—grow in silence. See the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.”
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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
“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
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
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Mother Teresa
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers."
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Mother Teresa
“Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.”
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Mother Teresa
