Mother Teresa Wisdom/Quotes

Mother Teresa Quotes & Wisdom

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​“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.” 
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“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
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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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Mother Teresa Quotes On Life

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
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“If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.”
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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
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“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
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“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” 
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“The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace”
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“Work without love is slavery.”
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“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
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“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
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“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.”
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“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
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“The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”
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“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
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“If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”
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“Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.”
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“In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East -- especially in India -- I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving -- it is not in the result of loving.
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“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”
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“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”
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“When you don't have anything, then you have everything.”
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“Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.”
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“I feel 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... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts...”
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“In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”
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“The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the dependent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners.”
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“Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.”
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“Give, but give until it hurts.”
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“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”
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“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”
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God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us -- you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His.”
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“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
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“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
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“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
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“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
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“I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.”
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“Peace begins with a smile..”
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“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”
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“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
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“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
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“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
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“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
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“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
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“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
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“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
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“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
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“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
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“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
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We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
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“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
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“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
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“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.”
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“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
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“Live simply so others may simply live.”
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“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
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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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“These are the few ways we can practice humility:
To speak as little as possible of one's self.
To mind one's own business.
Not to want to manage other people's affairs.
To avoid curiosity.
To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.
To pass over the mistakes of others.
To accept insults and injuries.
To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.
To be kind and gentle even under provocation.
Never to stand on one's dignity.
To choose always the hardest.”
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“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.” 
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