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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
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Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
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Brothers, Fathers and Sisters - all of us in the Missionaries of Charity are doing the same. All of us have been created by God to love and to be loved. We are involved in this work. When you do that, there is joy, unity and love.
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Peace begins wilt smile.
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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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We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
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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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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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Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.
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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 beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.
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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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The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.
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He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.
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You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.
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There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.
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A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.
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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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Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.
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If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.
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If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.
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