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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.'

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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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If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
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How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!
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The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.
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Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.
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When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.
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The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.
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When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, What can we do to promote world peace? She answered Go home and love your family.
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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Religion has nothing to do with compassion it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.
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We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the joy and the energy to do what they are doing?' The Eucharist involves more than just receiving it also involves satisfying the hunger of Christ. He says, 'Come to Me.' He is hungry for souls.
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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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I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.
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You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
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Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.
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We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.
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Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.
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In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
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Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper
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