“God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.”
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Mother Teresa
“The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
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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
“At the hour of death when we come face-to-face with God, we are going to be judged on love; not how much we have done, but how much love we put into the doing.”
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Mother Teresa
“There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.”
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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
“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
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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 want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”
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Mother Teresa
“He has told us that He is the hungry one. He is the naked one. He is the thirsty one. He is the one without a home. He is the one who is suffering. These are our treasures, she said, looking at the rows of pallets in the caravanserai. They are Jesus.”
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Mother Teresa
“A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.”
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Mother Teresa
“I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.”
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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