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There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.

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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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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If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.
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Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.
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Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
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Where there is love, there is joy.
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God loves the world through us.
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The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.
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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 want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
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Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.
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One thing I ask you to do, you people who have the pen in your hand, allow God to use you so that you never write anything that will destroy, that will hurt, but always take the trouble to write something beautiful, to help the people to see better, to love better, to come closer... to each other.
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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
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By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.
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I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.
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We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time.
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Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.
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Saints are only sinners who keep trying.
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Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor.
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Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.
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These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.
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