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The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

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
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Meditation
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The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.
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How much love did you put into what you did?
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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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A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
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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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We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?
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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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There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.
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I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.
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The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
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I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
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