“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
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Mother Teresa
“Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.”
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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
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
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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
“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
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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
“I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.”
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Mother Teresa
“If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers.”
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Mother Teresa
“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.”
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Mother Teresa
“People are hungry for God. People are hungry for love. Are you aware of that? Do you know that? Do you see that? Do you have eyes to see? Quite often we look but we don’t see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.”
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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
“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
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Mother Teresa
“In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”
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Mother Teresa
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
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Mother Teresa
