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The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'

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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I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.
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Spread your love wherever you go.
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We will never know how much just a simple smile will do.
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…Spread your love everywhere you go.
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We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.
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We need silence to be able to touch souls.
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You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.
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What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.
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What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.
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The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but kills to solve her own problems. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.
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If people spent one hour per week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended
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Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.
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In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.
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If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
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We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.
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Faith keeps the person who keeps the faith.
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All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart
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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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Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
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