Quotes by Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary

Lived from: 1910 - 1997

Born: 26 august 1910 Died: 5 september 1997

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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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  • Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
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  • Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
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  • More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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  • One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
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  • One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
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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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  • Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
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  • So many signatures for such a small heart.
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  • Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
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  • The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
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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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  • The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
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  • The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.
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  • There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in -that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
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  • There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
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  • There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
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  • There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
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  • To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
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  • We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.
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