“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
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Mother Teresa
“When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.”
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Mother Teresa
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
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Mother Teresa
“One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.”
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Mother Teresa
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
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Mother Teresa
“Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?”
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Mother Teresa
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
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Mother Teresa
“We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.”
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Mother Teresa
“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”
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Mother Teresa
“Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.”
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Mother Teresa
“The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.”
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Mother Teresa
“If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive."
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Mother Teresa
“Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway.”
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Mother Teresa
