“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
“I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus. ”
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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
“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.”
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Mother Teresa
“You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.”
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Mother Teresa
“If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
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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
“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
“There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us - together - make something beautiful for God.”
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Mother Teresa
“He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.”
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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
“Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.”
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Mother Teresa
“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.”
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Mother Teresa
“every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing”
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Mother Teresa
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
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Mother Teresa
