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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
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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 doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
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Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. 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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The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.
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God made the world for the delight of human beings.
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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.
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The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth. Each moment that you spend with Jesus will deepen your union with Him and make your soul everlastingly more glorious and beautiful in Heaven, and will help bring about everlasting peace on earth
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Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?
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A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.
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Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.
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There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.
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If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
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If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve
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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
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God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.
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Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!
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Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility
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Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
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Love should be as natural as living and breathing.
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