“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.”
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Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
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Mother Teresa
“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”
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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
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody”
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Mother Teresa
“I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.”
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Mother Teresa
“When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.”
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Mother Teresa
“Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God's work with a smile.”
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Mother Teresa
“The Particular End is to carry Christ into the homes and streets of the slums, among the sick, dying, the beggars and the little street children. The sick will be nursed as far as possible in their poor homes. The little children will have a school in the slums. The beggars will be sought and visited in their holes outside the town or on the streets. She would later elaborate and broaden the text to read, “Our particular mission is to labour at the salvation and sanctification of the poorest of the poor, not only in the slums, but also all over the world wherever they may be.”
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Mother Teresa
“We are not called to be successful, but faithful.”
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Mother Teresa
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
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Mother Teresa
