Mother Teresa Quotes - Page 28

• Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and for what he is calling me?' He answered, 'You will know by your happiness. If you are happy with the idea that God calls you to serve him and your neighbour, this will be the proof of your vocation.'

  Mother Teresa

  Ideas, Advice, Purpose

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• Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Joy, Catholic

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• Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Lamps, Looks

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.22, New World Library

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• We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved you

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Love Is

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• Peace begins wilt smile.

  Mother Teresa

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• Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

  Mother Teresa

  Real, Loneliness, Hunger

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

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• Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Sick, Joy

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

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• Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, Jesus, People

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• My key to heaven is that I loved Jesus in the night.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Night, Keys

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• The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in my life; in the mass we have Jesus in the appearance of bread. While in the slums we see Christ and touch him in the broken bodies, in the abandoned children.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, Jesus, Children

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

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• I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Clarity, Praying

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• We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

  Mother Teresa

  Want, Able, Christ

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

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• It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Country, Inspiration

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.261, Image

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• A family that prays together stays together. As we are united at this moment, let us join also the prayer of all and everyone. What you can do I cannot do. And what I can do you cannot do. But all of us together are doing something beautiful for God.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Prayer, Together

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• Why can't there be love that never gets tired?

  Mother Teresa

  Tired

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• Then we have the silence of the eyes which will always help us to see God. Our eyes are like two windows through which Christ or the world comes to our hearts. Often we need great courage to keep them closed. How often we say, I wish I had not seen this thing, and yet we take so little trouble to overcome the desire to see everything.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Eye, Two

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• Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.

  Mother Teresa

  Father, Perfect, Heaven

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• When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them

  Mother Teresa

  Eye, Who Cares, Looks

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• We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Giving, Praying

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• Life's a song,sing it

  Mother Teresa

  Song

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• If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

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• Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Love You, Famous Last Words

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• In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Heart, Silence

  Mother Teresa (2008). “Jesus is My All in All: Praying with the "Saint of Calcutta"”, p.16, Image

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• Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.

  Mother Teresa

  Helping, Poor, Critics

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• Jesus has said "Come, blessed of my Father, take the seat in the kingdom prepared for you, because I was hungry you gave me food, I was thirsty you have me drink, I was naked you clothed me, I was homeless you took me home and I was sick you visited me." And we are just doing that.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Father, Blessed

  Source: mattersindia.com

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