“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”
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Mother Teresa
“Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?”
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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
“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”
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Mother Teresa
“As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves but does not speak … I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have free hand.”
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Mother Teresa
“In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”
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Mother Teresa
“The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.”
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Mother Teresa
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.”
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Mother Teresa
“By our life and deeds of love, we are making the Church fully present in the world today.”
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Mother Teresa
“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”
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Mother Teresa
“Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”
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Mother Teresa
“Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me." By yourself you can do nothing, have nothing but sin, weakness and misery. All the gifts of nature and grace you have them from God.”
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Mother Teresa
“Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.”
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Mother Teresa
