I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.


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Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what...
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I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything a...
MOTHER TERESA
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
MOTHER TERESA
Never be so busy as not to think of others.
MOTHER TERESA
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
MOTHER TERESA
Family life is the backbone of mankind, and that life is dependent upon mutual giving, sharing, and ...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv...
MOTHER TERESA
Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, a...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Jesus did not always like the Apostles' way of acting, but by adapting himself to their temperam...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater ...
MOTHER ANGELICA
When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we a...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Every retarded, deformed, crippled, handicapped, or senile person, who has been baptized, is a power...
MOTHER ANGELICA
At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.
MOTHER ANGELICA
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the ...
MOTHER TERESA
We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -Mother Teresa.
MOTHER TERESA
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence....
MOTHER TERESA
I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask ...
MOTHER TERESA
Joy is strength.
MOTHER TERESA
Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, wha...
MOTHER TERESA
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
MOTHER TERESA
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
MOTHER TERESA
Religious life is an encounter with the living God. Sometimes that encounter is preceded by a kind o...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Love has been defined, analyzed, explained and excused. It has been the cause of wars, feuds, herois...
MOTHER ANGELICA
The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, lig...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The a...
MOTHER ANGELICA
My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, le...
MOTHER ANGELICA
Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we he...
MOTHER MARIBEL
Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling t...
MOTHER ANGELICA