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

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
Writing
Sharpener
Calcutta
Pencil
Pencils
Charity
Hand
Small
Hands

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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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We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.
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Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
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The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.
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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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If you can't feed 100 just feed ONE.
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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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I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.
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Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.
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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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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.
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Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs.
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People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.
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We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.
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I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
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If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?
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My prayer for you is that you may grow in the likeness of Christ, being real carriers of God's love and that you really bring his presence, first, into your own family, then, to the next door neighbor, the street you we live in, the town we live in, the country we live, then only, in the whole world, that living example of God's presence.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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