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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
Life
Admire
Beauty

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Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.
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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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Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?
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In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.
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Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word
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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
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I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God
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Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.
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It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.
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You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.
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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
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Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.
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If you want to have world peace, go to your house and love your family.
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Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.
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The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
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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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Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus
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Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
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Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, do his work through your hands, for you will be all-powerful with him to strengthen you.
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