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A smile is the beginning of peace.

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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Peace

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If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.
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There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ: Jesus is my God, Jesus is my Spouse, Jesus is my Life, Jesus is my only Love, Jesus is my All in All Jesus is my Everything.
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Helping hands are better than Praying Lips
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Real prayer is union with God.
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It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.
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God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.
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Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.
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A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.
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All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.
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Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!
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Peace starts with a smile
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Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved... To love a person without any conditions, without any expectations. Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace. To love, it is necessary to give. To give, it is necessary to be free from selfishness.
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Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
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Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
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I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.
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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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In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
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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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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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I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.
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