“The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.”
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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
“Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.”
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Mother Teresa
“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
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Mother Teresa
“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”
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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
“If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.”
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Mother Teresa
“There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us - together - make something beautiful for God.”
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Mother Teresa
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
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Mother Teresa
“Persuaded of our nothingness and with the blessing of obedience we attempt all things, doubting nothing, for with God all things are possible. We will allow the good God to make plans for the future, for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come, and we have only today to make him known loved, and served. Grateful for the thousands of opportunities Jesus gives us to bring hope into a multitude of lives by our concern for the individual sufferer, we will help our troubled world at the brink of despair to discover a new reason to live or to die with a smile of contentment on its lips.”
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Mother Teresa
“One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.”
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Mother Teresa
“I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus. ”
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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
“I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.”
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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
