Mother Teresa Quotes
A Catholic Nun who dedicted her life to the poor, particularly the destitute masses of India.
(1910 - 1997)
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Any country that accepts abortion, is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
[Faith]
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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. . . . We must find each other.
[Being]
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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
[One Day]
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Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
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Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
[Being]
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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
[Action]
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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
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God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
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God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.
[Action]
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Good works are links that form a chain of love.
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I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
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I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
[Action]
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I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't 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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I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.
[Faith]
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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
[Love]
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I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.
[The Present]
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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
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I never will understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.
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