Best Quotes by Mother Teresa (Top 10)
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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?
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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
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At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
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More Mother Teresa Quotes
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God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
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I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
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Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
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Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
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Love to be real, it must cost"it must hurt"it must empty us of self.
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People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
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Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
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Life is beauty admire it!
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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
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Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.
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There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
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Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
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We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
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One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
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What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.
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To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
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We are all pencils in the hand of God.
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Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
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One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
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If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
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One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.
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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.
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
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It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
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Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.
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We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
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God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.
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I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
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There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
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We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love
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Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.
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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.
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