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Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

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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Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim's body to bury it, Hindus come and take away the dead to be cremated and Christians come and bury their dead.
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I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.
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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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If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway
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No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
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God does not create poverty we do, because we do not share.
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In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.
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Love is proved by deeds the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.
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I have a primary responsibility to myself to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share.- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
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Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.
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One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.
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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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There are others who take up that (liberating) role. I have no time to spend for that.
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I feel called to help individuals, to love each human being. I never think in terms of crowds in general but in terms of persons. Were I to think about crowds, I would never begin anything.
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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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Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.
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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
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[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.
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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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All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.
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