Mother Teresa

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. - Mother Theresa"
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"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. - Mother Theresa"
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"I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things."
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"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."
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"Peace begins with a smile."
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"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."
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"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."
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"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given."
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"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God."
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"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."
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"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
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"Joy is prayer joy is strength: joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
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"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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"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
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"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
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"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."
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"If you 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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"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."
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"Intense love does not measure, it just gives."
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"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."
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"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
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