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The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family

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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
Present
Greatest
Beauty
Child
Family
Children
World
Gift

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At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.
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Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
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If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.
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Life is a challenge, we must take it.
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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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Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?
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Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs.
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Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
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If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.
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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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What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
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Joy is very infectious therefore, be always full of joy!
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Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you.
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It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.
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Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.
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Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!
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I always say if you are afraid of them (the unborn), give them to me. Please, don't kill them.
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If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled
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How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
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When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them
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