Mother Teresa

(184 votes)   One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

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

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(181 votes)   So many signatures for such a small heart.

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

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(174 votes)   Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.

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

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(163 votes)   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.

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

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(158 votes)   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.

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

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(135 votes)   We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

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

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(134 votes)   Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

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(129 votes)   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.

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

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(126 votes)   We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God.

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

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(122 votes)   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.

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

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(121 votes)   Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa
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(118 votes)   If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.

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

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(117 votes)   It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

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

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(107 votes)   Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.

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

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(95 votes)   life is

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