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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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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
America
Love
Life
Famine
Food
Truth

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Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.
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Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.
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I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.
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Let's do something beautiful for God.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.
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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.
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Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity will lead to peace.
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Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace.
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Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
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I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it
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