“Words that do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
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Mother Teresa
“We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else”
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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
“We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.”
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Mother Teresa
“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.”
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Mother Teresa
“There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.”
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Mother Teresa
“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”
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Mother Teresa
“I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.”
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Mother Teresa
“If you judge people you have no time to love them ♥”
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Mother Teresa
“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
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Mother Teresa
“If we worry too much about ourselves, we won't have time for others”
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Mother Teresa
“Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.”
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Mother Teresa
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
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Mother Teresa
“love only variously everyday
The meaning of love”
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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
