“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.”
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Mother Teresa
“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.”
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Mother Teresa
“We interfere with God’s plans when we push in someone or something else not suitable for us. Be strict with yourself, and then be very strict with what you are receiving from the outside.”
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Mother Teresa
“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”
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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
“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”
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Mother Teresa
“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
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Mother Teresa
“The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.”
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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
“Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread.
It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandoned, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty”
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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
“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
“If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.”
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Mother Teresa
“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
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Mother Teresa
“And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love...”
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Mother Teresa
