Teresa Quotes - Page 2

• I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Mother, Boxing

  "The chips run out in Las Vegas" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2002.

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• There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual - and yet not wanted by God - repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. Souls hold no attraction - Heaven means nothing - to me it looks like an empty place - the thought of it means nothing to me and yet this torturing longing for God. Pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything. For I am only His - so He has every right over me. I am perfectly happy to be nobody even to God. . . . Your devoted child in J.C. M. Teresa

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Children, Mean, Heaven

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• I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Children, Only Child

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• God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I'm not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend.

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Liars, Mean

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Princess Diaries, Volume X: Forever Princess”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.

  Steven Pinker

  Mother, White, Earth

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• I believe God loves the world through us - through you and through me. We use Mother Teresa's name; it is only a name, but we are real co-workers and carriers of His love. Today God loves the world through us. Especially in times like these when people are trying to make God "was," it is you and I, by our love, by the purity of our lives, by our compassion, who prove to the world that God "is."

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Real, Believe

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• Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine.

  John Eldredge

  Mother, Spiritual, Each Day

  John Eldredge (2008). “Eldredge 2 in 1: Waking the Dead & Desire”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mother, Jobs, Successful

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• Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.

  Simon Sinek

  Motivational, Mother, Sacrifice

  "Why good leaders make you feel safe". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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• And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere. I also can't believe that people like Stalin and Hitler are gonna go to the same place as Mother Teresa.

  Peter Steele

  Mother, Believe, Thinking

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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Mother, Kings

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• Most great figures in world history are remembered for their compassion. [Martin Luther] King shared this trait with the Ghandis, Mother Teresas, and Mandelas of the world. He also shared this trait with the late Stanley Tookie Williams.

  Renford Reese

  Mother, Kings, Compassion

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• It was her. It was Teresa.

  James Dashner

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• For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.

  Joe Mantegna

  Mother

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• The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is going on. And so to us the totality of love is what we feel. But to really love someone requires commitment, fidelity and vulnerability. Mother Teresa wasn't "feeling" Christ's love, and she could have shut down. But she was up at 4:30 every morning for Jesus, and still writing to him, "Your happiness is all I want."

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Love, Faith, Mother

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• Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most.

  Anita Dunn

  Mother, Two, People

  "'Special Report' Panel on White House Fox Bashing and Afghanistan Elections". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. October 20, 2009.

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• Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

  Donald Wuerl

  Mother, Saint, Use

  "CBB Interview with Cardinal Donald Wuerl". Interview with Pete Socks, www.patheos.com. April 13, 2014.

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• When I feel like I'm stuck, I do something - not like I'm Mother Teresa or anything, but there's someone that's forgotten about in your life, all the time. Someone that could use an 'Attaboy' or a 'How you doin' out there.

  Bill Murray

  Mother, Use, Forgotten

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• Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.

  Robert Barron

  Atheist, Struggle, Writing

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• It's 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler. Can I play? Let's see. Mother Teresa had a mustache. Hitler had a mustache. Mother Teresa is Hitler!

  Lewis Black

  Mother, Play, Mustache

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• That's what I do. I just let Mother Earth use me, in many, many instances, especially when I am working with pollution. She is a very real Spirit - she is your mother, and if you open to Her, she can come in and use you in a way that is very powerful. That is what Mother Teresa has done, by being selfless.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Mother, Powerful, Real

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

  Larry Gatlin

  Mother, Florida, Florence Nightingale

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• India has no reason to be grateful to Mother Teresa

  Sanal Edamaruku

  Mother, Grateful, India

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• I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.

  Bea Arthur

  Mother, Empty Rooms, Wish

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• Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.

  Melina Marchetta

  War, Mistake, Voice

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