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God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.

Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: August 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 5
Religious Sister
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Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
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Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor.
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There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.
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The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.
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We cannot really know God if we do not pray.
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Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.
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He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.
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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
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Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you and I! The current is God! We have the power to allow the current to flow through us and thus to generate the light of the world: JESUS - or to refuse to be used and, thus, allow the darkness to spread.
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The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.
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Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.
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It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.
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We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.
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Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
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Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.
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One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.
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Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me.
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If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
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It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.
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By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.
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Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.
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