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It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

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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Calcutta
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Philanthropy
Charity

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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
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Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.
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I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
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We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the joy and the energy to do what they are doing?' The Eucharist involves more than just receiving it also involves satisfying the hunger of Christ. He says, 'Come to Me.' He is hungry for souls.
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You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.
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Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.
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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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What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
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God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
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We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.
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I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.
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Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
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Brothers, Fathers and Sisters - all of us in the Missionaries of Charity are doing the same. All of us have been created by God to love and to be loved. We are involved in this work. When you do that, there is joy, unity and love.
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By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.
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No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
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[West Bengal state] Government has decided that non-criminal persons should not be kept in these kind of places and asked us to take care of them. They should live in an atmosphere of love. They need to be loved.
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A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.
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We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
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