Mother Teresa Quotes - Page 23

• Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, People, Giving

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• We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else

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  Needs, Poverty, Bread

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• We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love. When they are brought to our home, they feel they are in their own homes, with their own families. Now, I am trying to open a house for AIDS victims here (in Delhi). The people are dying because of it.

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  Home, People, House

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• Life is a game, play it.

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  Inspirational, Games, Play

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• Where there is love, there is joy.

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  Joy

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• As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

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  Mean, Knowing, Suffering

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

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  People, Environmental, Use

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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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  Death, Mother, Peace

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.97, Image

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• It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

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  Depression, Light, Giving

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• Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hearts and see if there is any unforgiven hurt -- any unforgotten bitterness! It is easy to love those who are far away. It isn't always easy to love those who are right next to us. It is easier to offer food to the hungry than to answer the lonely suffering of someone who lacks love right in one

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  Lonely, Hurt, Jesus

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• Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.

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  Giving, Joy, Catholic

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• It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

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  Country, Fighting, Rich Countries

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

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  Prayer, Flower, Light

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• If you're too busy to pray...you're too busy

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  Praying, Busy, Too Busy

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• [My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

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  Mother, Tongue, Language

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the joy and the energy to do what they are doing?' The Eucharist involves more than just receiving; it also involves satisfying the hunger of Christ. He says, 'Come to Me.' He is hungry for souls.

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  People, Joy, Soul

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1990). “Total Surrender”

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• Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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• By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion.

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  Mother, Children, Father

  Speech at National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., February 03, 1994.

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• People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.

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  People, May, Want

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• Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.

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  Life, Prayer, Sacrifice

  "Love, a Fruit Always in Season: Daily Meditations from the Words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta". Book by Mother Teresa, edited by Dorothy S. Hunt, 1987.

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• I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it. I don't understand.

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  Children, War, Asking

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• Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Hurt

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• True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love

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  Hurt, Pain, Love Is

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.27, New World Library

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

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  Life, Kindness, Expression

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

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• Who is Jesus to me? Jesus is the Word made Flesh. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the cross. Jesus is the sacrifice offered at holy Mass for the sins of the world and for mine. Jesus is the Word - to be spoken. Jesus is the Truth - to be told. Jesus is the Way - to be walked. Jesus is the Light - to be lit. Jesus is the Life - to be lived. Jesus is the Love - to be loved

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  Jesus, Sacrifice, Light

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