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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.

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
Meaning
Community
Action
Cannot
Love
Volunteer
Inspiring
Remain
Service

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Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
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A smile is the beginning of peace.
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My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.
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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 faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
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One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
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Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
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Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.
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It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.
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It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.
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Behold , I have graven you upon the palm of my hand, that is what Jesus came on earth to do: to proclaim, to give us the Good News that God loves us, that we are precious to Him.
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The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.
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…Spread your love everywhere you go.
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We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.
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Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me.
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Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.
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If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway
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Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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