Mother Teresa

(232 votes)   If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(224 votes)   One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(221 votes)   Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(221 votes)   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.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(220 votes)   There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(217 votes)   As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(203 votes)   O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

St. Teresa of Avila
1515-1582, Spanish Saint, Mystic

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(201 votes)   If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(196 votes)   Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

St. Teresa of Avila
1515-1582, Spanish Saint, Mystic

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(192 votes)   It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(191 votes)   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.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(186 votes)   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.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(185 votes)   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.

Mother Teresa

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(184 votes)   Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(184 votes)   The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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