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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun renowned for her humanitarian work. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950, a religious congregation dedicated to helping the poorest and most destitute. She was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia. After joining the Sis... show more

quote icon “I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies and offer myself as a willing slave to the will of God. Yes, my children, this is what I pray for daily, for each one, that you may become a slave to the will of God”

- Mother Teresa

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quote icon “Love, in order to survive, must be nourished by sacrifices, especially the sacrifice of self. / Charity to be fruitful, must cost us. / This love should flow from self-sacrifice, and it must be felt to the point of hurting. / He wants us to love one another, to give ourselves to each other until it hurts. / Give until it hurts, until you feel the pain.“

- Mother Teresa

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quote icon “Christ’s love for us will give us strength and urge us to spend ourselves for him. ‘Let the sisters and the people eat you up.’ We have no right to refuse our life to others in whom we contact Christ.”

- Mother Teresa

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quote icon “A Missionary of Charity is just a little instrument in the hands of God. We must try to keep it always like that—being just a small instrument in his hands. Very often I feel like a little pencil in God’s hand. He does the writing; he does the thinking; he does the movement—I have only to be a pencil and nothing else.”

- Mother Teresa

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quote icon “Jesus, my own Jesus—I am only Thine—I am so stupid—I do not know what to say—but do with me whatever You wish—as You wish—as long as you wish. I love you not for what you give, but for what You take Jesus—why can’t I be a perfect Loreto Nun—a real victim of Your love.”

- Mother Teresa

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quote icon “If my separation from You [Jesus],—brings others to You and in their love and company You find joy and pleasure—why Jesus, I am willing with all my heart to suffer all that I suffer—not only now—but for all eternity—if this was possible.”

- Mother Teresa

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quote icon “Believe in Him, trust in Him with a blind and absolute confidence because He is Jesus.”

- Mother Teresa

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quote icon “Love, in order to survive, must be nourished by sacrifices, especially the sacrifice of self. / Charity to be fruitful, must cost us. / This love should flow from self-sacrifice, and it must be felt to the point of hurting. / He wants us to love one another, to give ourselves to each other until it hurts. / Give until it hurts, until you feel the pain.“

- Mother Teresa

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quote icon “Our Love for one another will be: selfless, generous, tender, personal, and respectful ... beyond likes and dislikes, friendship and enmity, worthiness and unworthiness, [unconditional] … always inspiring, encouraging, trusting, wholehearted, and [self-] sacrificial unto the death of the cross.”

- Mother Teresa

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quote icon People are unreasonable and self-centered. FORGIVE THEM ANYWAY. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. BE KIND ANYWAY. If you are honest, people may cheat you. BE HONEST ANYWAY. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. BE HAPPY ANYWAY. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. DO GOOD ANYWAY. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. GIVE YOUR BEST ANYWAY. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. IT WAS NEVER BETWEEN YOU AND THEM ANYWAY.

- Mother Teresa

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quote icon To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

- Mother Teresa

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quote icon 'Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.' Mother Teresa

- Mother Teresa

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quote icon Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

- Mother Teresa

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quote icon I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.

- Mother Teresa

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