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We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwan...
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger,...
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
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Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less be...
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Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully. Do not let a chance pass you by. It is ...
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I hope that what you give me comes not from your surplus but it is the fruit of a sacrifice made for...
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Christ says: I know you through and through – I know everything about you. The very hairs of your ...
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Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doin...
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Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have ...
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every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing
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Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we was...
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God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work ...
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God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold...
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The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do someth...
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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...
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We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
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Never be so busy as not to think of others.
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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv...
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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the ...
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We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -Mother Teresa.
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence....
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I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask ...
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Joy is strength.
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Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, wha...
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It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
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The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
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Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war th...
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Whether one is Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, how you live your life is proof that you are or not...
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What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.
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We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
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There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little l...
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
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The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.
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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easie...
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If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
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