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Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

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
Sinners
Saints
Sinner
Saint
Keep
Trying

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I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.
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Spread love everywhere you go first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
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At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.
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Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a dying man whom she took back to a home where he could die in love and peace. 'I live like an animal in the streets,' the man told her. 'Now I will die like an angel'.
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I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.
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Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.
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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.
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Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.
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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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Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force 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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Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses
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Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.
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Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs.
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I have a primary responsibility to myself to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share.- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
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There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
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If you can't feed 100 just feed ONE.
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God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
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Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
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