“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.”
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Mother Teresa
“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
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Mother Teresa
“Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.”
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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
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”
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Mother Teresa
“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.”
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Mother Teresa
“You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have.”
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Mother Teresa
“Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”
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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
“The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.”
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Mother Teresa
“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
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Mother Teresa
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
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Mother Teresa
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”
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Mother Teresa
“And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even His life to love us. So, the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love, that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts.”
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Mother Teresa
