“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”
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Mother Teresa
“Words that do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
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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
“If we worry too much about ourselves, we won't have time for others”
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Mother Teresa
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”
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Mother Teresa
“The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.”
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Mother Teresa
“God has not called me to be successful; He has called me to be faithful.”
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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
“In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.”
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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
“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”
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Mother Teresa
“Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.”
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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
“The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.”
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Mother Teresa
