Mother Teresa Quotes - Page 8

• People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Honesty, Self, Years

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• Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you and I! The current is God! We have the power to allow the current to flow through us and thus to generate the light of the world: JESUS - or to refuse to be used and, thus, allow the darkness to spread.

  Mother Teresa

  Running, Jesus, Light

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• When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Sad, Hurt

  Teresa (Mother), Roger (frère) (1986). “Meditations on the Way of the Cross”, Burns & Oates

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• Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Jesus, Hurt

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• Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me.

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Glasses, Giving

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• Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

  Mother Teresa

  Compassion, Purpose, Our Love

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• One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Great Love, Heaven

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• We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Being Different, Different, World

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• Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

  Mother Teresa

  Calcutta, Blessed Mother, Brethren

  Mother Teresa (2011). “A Simple Path”, p.19, Random House

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• Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Example, Preaching

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• I have the feeling that we are in such a hurry that we do not have time to look at one another and smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Smile, Feelings, Looks

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Love Is, Slavery

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• Be not afraid. God loves you & wants us to love one another as He loves us. As miserable, weak and sinful as we are, He loves us with an infinitely faithful love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love You, Faithful, Want

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• When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

  Mother Teresa

  Rights, Government, Abortion

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• Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.

  Mother Teresa

  Life Is, Calcutta, Worthwhile

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• Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Hurt, Pain

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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• What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

  Mother Teresa

  Vanity, People, Generosity

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• I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.

  Mother Teresa

  Thinking, Differences, People

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• The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.

  Mother Teresa

  Greatness, Generosity, Giving

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• There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Motherhood, Trying

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• May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.

  Mother Teresa

  Love You, Giving, May

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.29, New World Library

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• The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Thoughtful, May

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• It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspiration, Motherhood, Aids

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• We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Smile, Spiritual

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