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Every moment of life is like a sacrament in which we can receive God. It is a channel through which God speaks to us, forms us, and directs us.


Mother Angelica

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MOTHER THERESA If I look at the mass I will never act.
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MOTHER TERESA Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
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MOTHER TERESA I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
MOTHER TERESA I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
MOTHER TERESA God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
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MOTHER TERESA Work without love is slavery.
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MOTHER TERESA I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
MOTHER TERESA I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for Go...
MOTHER TERESA The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service<...
MOTHER TERESA I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to...
MOTHER TERESA Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t...
MOTHER THERESA Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
MOTHER THERESA If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
MOTHER THERESA Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater ri...
MOTHER THERESA When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food...
MOTHER THERESA The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
MOTHER THERESA Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hea...
MOTHER THERESA I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, tha...
MOTHER THERESA There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of cha...
MOTHER THERESA It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
MOTHER THERESA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in th...
MOTHER THERESA Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money...
MOTHER THERESA To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
MOTHER THERESA There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
MOTHER THERESA As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God an...
MOTHER THERESA One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
MOTHER THERESA I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
MOTHER THERESA There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; ...
MOTHER THERESA Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's ki...
MOTHER THERESA We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. I will be a saint means I will despoil m...
MOTHER THERESA Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac...
MOTHER THERESA For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none, If there be one, try to find i...
MOTHER GOOSE