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Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

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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
Hands
Give
Giving
Heart
Love
Generosity
Serve
Hearts

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I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day.
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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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Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.
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... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.
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If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
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Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing a lifelong sharing of love with others.
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Good works are links that form a chain of love Mother Theresa
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Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.
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One thing I ask you to do, you people who have the pen in your hand, allow God to use you so that you never write anything that will destroy, that will hurt, but always take the trouble to write something beautiful, to help the people to see better, to love better, to come closer... to each other.
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Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
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I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'
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It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.
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If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who can show him God's love.
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To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.
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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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Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
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Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
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Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.
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We cannot really know God if we do not pray.
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