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Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

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
Charity
Helping
Love
Patronizing
Pity

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Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.
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We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.
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Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile.
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Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.
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Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.
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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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Life is a challenge, we must take it.
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Peace begins wilt smile.
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I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
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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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When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now.
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Spread your love wherever you go.
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We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.
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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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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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Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.
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Real prayer is union with God.
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Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
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