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If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

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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A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her.
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He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.
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Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper
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Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.
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God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.
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Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
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When you don't have anything, then you have everything.
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Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
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God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.
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February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady. What is taking place in America, she said, is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another.
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The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.
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Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
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Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.
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Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.
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I am busy with my work. My path is clear. I see somebody dying, I pick him up. I find somebody hungry, I give him food. He can love and be loved. I don't look at his color, I don't look at his religion.
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Our Father, here I am, at your disposal, your child, to use me to continue your loving the world, by giving Jesus to me and through me, to each other that we allow Jesus to love in us and through us with the love with which His Father loves him.
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Never Let Anyone Come to You Without Coming Away Better and Happier
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I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.
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