Calcutta Quotes - Page 5

• A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Real, Sacrifice

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• The Prince of Calcutta. Two of his special qualities are his intelligence and articulation, both of which have helped him immensely in the world of contemporary cricket.

  Geoffrey Boycott

  Two, Special, Quality

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• Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
  Life is beauty, admire it.
  Life is a dream, realize it

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Dream, Opportunity

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• The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

  Chris Matthews

  Mother, Lasts, John Paul Ii

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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• The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Love Is, Fruit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In our home (for the dying at Kali Ghat) in Calcutta, there is great peace, unity and love. Many Hindu families bring food, clothing nonstop to our home for the dying. This is an act of love. I didn't ask them. They have only heard about what I am doing and they all come.

  Mother Teresa

  Home, Unity, Dying

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year. But we never refuse anybody. Everybody is most welcome.

  Mother Teresa

  Baby, Children, Years

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Mother, Games

  "Life Is". Poem by Mother Teresa, www.beliefnet.com.

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• If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

  Mother Teresa

  Firsts, Persons, First Person

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• Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start

  Mother Teresa

  Home, Our Love, Easy Love

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• There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.

  Mother Teresa

  Should, Preaching, Meetings

  1975 A Gift for God,'Carriers of Christ's Love'.

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• She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way — through this painful interior "darkness" — she tasted their greatest poverty of being "unwanted, unloved, and uncared for."

  Mother Teresa

  Catholic, Poverty, Naked

  "A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve".

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• Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Thinking

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

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• Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

  Mother Teresa

  Forgiveness, Mother, Forgive And Forget

  "No Greater Love".

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• God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

  Mother Teresa

  Success, God, Mother

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• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Wisdom, Inspiration

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.31, New World Library

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  Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, New Year, Mother

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.17, New World Library

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• A life not lived for others is not a life.

  Mother Teresa

  Thoughtful, Heal The World

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• The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

  Mother Teresa

  Butterfly, Being In Love, Helping Others

  Quoted in the Observer, 3 Oct 1971.

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands... A saint is higher than anyone else in the world. A saint is the real mountain climber. A saint is also lower than anyone else in the world. As with water, he flows to the lowest places - like Calcutta.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Husband, Real

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• I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, New York, Father

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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