“He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.”
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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
“The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So we have to go through the fire.”
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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
“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
“If you judge people, you don't have time to love them.”
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Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
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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
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
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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
“I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.”
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Mother Teresa
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
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Mother Teresa
“We need to find God and God cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees and flowers and grass—grow in silence. See the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.”
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Mother Teresa
“We are not called to be successful, but faithful.”
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Mother Teresa
