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Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.

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
Holiness
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Grace

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Have a great compassion for people. To be able to have a heart full of compassion, we need to pray. Especially be kind, be loving to the poor. We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich. We are in debt to them. Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.
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You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.
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Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.
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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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Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a dying man whom she took back to a home where he could die in love and peace. 'I live like an animal in the streets,' the man told her. 'Now I will die like an angel'.
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Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.
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Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
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We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.
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I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.
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If I look at the mass I will never act.
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Helping hands are better than Praying Lips
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We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.
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A Mother is the heart of the home
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
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If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
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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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Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.
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To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
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