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I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

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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
Small
Hands
Writing
Sharpener
Calcutta
Pencil
Pencils
Charity
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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
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Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.
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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
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We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
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The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.
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Life is an adventure, dare it.
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When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love.
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The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
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We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.
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People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.
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The first step to becoming is to will it.
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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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These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.
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If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway
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In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.
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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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Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.
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I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.
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