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There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Mother Teresa
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Mother Teresa
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: August 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 5
Religious Sister
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Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
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Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandonded, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty.
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If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too.
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We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
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There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
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We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.
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People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.
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When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.
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Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life.
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
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I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.
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O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!
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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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The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.
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We never had any problem from them. Jyoti Basu has been very kind to us. He was the one who told me Mother, please do something for these (jail) girls. He has been helpful and always accessible to us over phone. We also never had any problem whenever we wanted to meet him.
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Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.
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I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.
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