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It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

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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Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
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The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.
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Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.
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There are others who take up that (liberating) role. I have no time to spend for that.
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If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you Be honest and frank anyway.
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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.
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We cannot really know God if we do not pray.
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Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
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We belong to each other.
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We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses - tabernacles we call them - and over 4600 nuns. It's simply to serve the poorest of the poor. We are wanted and we have championed those who have nothing, the deprived children of God.
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God loves the world through us.
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We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
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But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.
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