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I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.

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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Joy is prayer joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.
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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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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Keep your heart pure. A pure heart is necessary to see God in each other. If you see God in each other, there is love for each other, then there is peace.
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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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It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
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We belong to each other.
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Let's do something beautiful for God.
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Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.
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The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.
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Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.
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It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.
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Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
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To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.
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I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
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Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile.
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