“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
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Mother Teresa
“The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
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Mother Teresa
“Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God's work with a smile.”
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Mother Teresa
“We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?”
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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
“It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love."
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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. ”
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Mother Teresa
“Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?”
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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
“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
“God hasn't called us to be successful, just faithful.”
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Mother Teresa
“God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.”
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Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
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Mother Teresa
“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.”
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Mother Teresa
