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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: August 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 5
Religious Sister
Saint
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Motherhood
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A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.
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Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.
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When you don't have anything, then you have everything.
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I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
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I have come to you, Jesus, to take your touch before I begin my day. Let your eyes rest upon my eyes for a while let me take to my work the assurance of your friendship. Fill my mind to last through the desert of noise. Let your blessed sunshine fill the peaks of my thoughts. And give me strength for those who need me.
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The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.
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How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.
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If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway
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February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady. What is taking place in America, she said, is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another.
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What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight build it anyway.
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All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.
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People everywhere are the same they are all people to be loved. They are all hungry for love.
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To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.
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I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
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May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.
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How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
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God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.
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Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.
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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
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