“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
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Mother Teresa
“She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.”
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Mother Teresa
“The biggest diease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody.”
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Mother Teresa
“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.”
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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
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”
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Mother Teresa
“We must become holy not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live His life fully in us.”
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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 am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.”
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Mother Teresa
“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”
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Mother Teresa
“Christ says: I know you through and through – I know everything about you. The very hairs of your head I have numbered. Nothing in your life is unimportant to me, I have followed you through the years, and I have always loved you – even in your wanderings.
I know every one of your problems. I know your need and your worries. And yes, I know all your sins. But I tell you again that I love you – not for what you have or haven’t done – I love you for you, for the beauty and dignity my Father gave you by creating you in his own image.”
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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
“To the good God nothing is little because He is so great and we so small- that is why He stoops down and takes the trouble to make those little things for us- to give us a chance to prove our love for Him.”
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Mother Teresa
