“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
“One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.”
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Mother Teresa
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
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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
“It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love."
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Mother Teresa
“I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.”
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Mother Teresa
“In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.”
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Mother Teresa
“Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God's work with a smile.”
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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
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
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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
“It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”
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Mother Teresa
