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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
Grace
Holiness
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I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
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The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.
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You can and you must expect suffering.
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