My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You ... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be w... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Love begins by taking care of the closest ones-the ones at home. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easie... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the ... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA In the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the crippled, of the homeless, of the blind, in their na... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. The r... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, includin... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Peace begins with a smile. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a bro... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We are all pencils in the hand of God. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, tha... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and becau... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one perso... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love wit... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We can do no great things; only small things with great love. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in lo... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA