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Love is proved by deeds the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.

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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Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.
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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
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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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I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
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Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down.
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Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.
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Let's do something beautiful for God.
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No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
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February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady. What is taking place in America, she said, is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another.
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The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.
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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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But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.
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Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
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I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.
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I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.
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Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
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To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.
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Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.
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I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.
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