“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
“I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt,
only more love.”
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Mother Teresa
“Give that child to me. I want it. I will care for it. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.”
―
Mother Teresa
“I have more often as my companion "darkness." And when the night becomes very thick- and it seems to me as if I will end up in hell- then I simply offer myself to Jesus.”
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Mother Teresa
“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.”
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Mother Teresa
“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”
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Mother Teresa
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. ”
―
Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
―
Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you don't have time to love them.”
―
Mother Teresa
“If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.”
―
Mother Teresa
“God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold...”
―
Mother Teresa
“And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love...”
―
Mother Teresa
“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.”
―
Mother Teresa
“But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult.”
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Mother Teresa
