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Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.

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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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In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.
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Life is an adventure, dare it.
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I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever he wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it.
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Where there is love, there is joy.
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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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You can and you must expect suffering.
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We belong to each other.
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The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.
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Saints are only sinners who keep trying.
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The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.
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From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.
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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
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We have only today. Let us begin
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We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.
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Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
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You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.
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Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.
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Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.
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Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.
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