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Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down.

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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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Gandhi
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Christians
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People crave attention and appreciation more than they do bread.
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What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight build it anyway.
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It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
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Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile.
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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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I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it. I don't understand.
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Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.
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The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in the way we walk, the way we receive, the way we serve.
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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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In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.
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The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.
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