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Don't wait to be led...do it yourself, person to person.

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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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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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Why can't there be love that never gets tired?
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In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.
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Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!
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If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.
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Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.
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Faith is a gift of God. Without it there would be no life. And our work, to be fruitful, and to be all for God, and to be beautiful, has to be built of faith. Faith in Christ who has said, I was hungry, I was naked, I was sick, and I was homeless, and you ministered to me! On these words of His all our work is based.
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I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.
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If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.
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A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.
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Spread your love wherever you go.
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You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.
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Works of love are always to accept and respect others.
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All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart
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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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I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.
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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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Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.
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Spread love whenever you go.
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When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, What can we do to promote world peace? She answered Go home and love your family.
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