Mother Teresa Quotes - Page 35

• I feel called to help individuals, to love each human being. I never think in terms of crowds in general but in terms of persons. Were I to think about crowds, I would never begin anything.

  Mother Teresa

  Thinking, Crowds, Helping

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.69, New World Library

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• I have never found a problem with people from different religions praying together. What I have found is that people are just hungry for God, and be they Christian or Muslim we invite them to pray with us.

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, People, Together

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• One day I met a lady who was dying of cancer in a most terrible condition. And I told her, I say, "You know, this terrible pain is only the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you."

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Kissing, Thinking

  Mother Teresa's address at the National Prayer Breakfast (Sponsored by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives), www.ewtn.com. February 3, 1994.

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• God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Hunger For Love

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• The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

  Mother Teresa

  Brother, People, Needs

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• love only variously everyday The meaning of love

  Mother Teresa

  Everyday, Meaning Of Love

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• Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God,
  trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

  Mother Teresa

  Serenity, Path, Losing

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• Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

  Mother Teresa

  Mortality, Disappear, Missions

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.88, New World Library

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• The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.

  Mother Teresa

  Audience, Whole

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.102, New World Library

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• We must love prayer. It widens the heart to the point of making it capable of containing the gift that God makes of himself. Ask and seek, and your heart will be widened to welcome him and to keep him within itself.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Welcome

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• I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share.- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Responsibility, Paradox

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• God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

  Mother Teresa

  Successful, Faithful, Demand

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• I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, People, Personality

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• I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving Up, Order, Christ

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• Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Links, Good Work

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• In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Compassion, Order

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.32, New World Library

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• I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Blessed, Able

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• We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of God's presence and if Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, or agnostics become for this better men - simply better - we will be satisfied. It matters to the individual what church he belongs to. If that individual thinks and believes that this is the only way to God for her or him, this is the way God comes into their life - his life. If he does not know any other way and if he has no doubt so that he does not need to search then this is his way to salvation.

  Mother Teresa

  Buddhist, Believe, Men

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• We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.

  Mother Teresa

  Reason, Habit, God Is There

  Mother Teresa (1985). “Mother Teresa: Contemplative in the Heart of the World”

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• If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Thinking, Self

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• Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.

  Mother Teresa

  Country, Children, Child Of God

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who can show him God's love.

  Mother Teresa

  Catholic, Guidance, Shows

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service.

  Mother Teresa

  Government, People, Giving

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• I am busy with my work. My path is clear. I see somebody dying, I pick him up. I find somebody hungry, I give him food. He can love and be loved. I don't look at his color, I don't look at his religion.

  Mother Teresa

  Color, Giving, Dying

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?

  Mother Teresa

  Catholic, Salary, Want

  Source: mattersindia.com

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