Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.


Mother Teresa

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—missionary: by going o...
MOTHER TERESA
Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This...
MOTHER TERESA
Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
MOTHER TERESA
God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His co...
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Live simply so others may simply live.
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Give that child to me. I want it. I will care for it. I am willing to accept any child who would be ...
MOTHER TERESA
It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small thin...
MOTHER TERESA
Fr. Bert White: I think when you focus on money and property ownership, you go the way of the materi...
MOTHER TERESA
As soon as we take the enfleshment of God, the incarnation which, for Christians, is represented by ...
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Deliver me, O Jesus, From the desire of being loved, From the desire of being extolled, From the des...
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The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit ...
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Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so tha...
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I am like a pencil in God's hand. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has only to ...
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It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how...
MOTHER TERESA
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.

I...
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Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love wit...
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The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
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Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoev...
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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
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If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill eac...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often th...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA