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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

– Mother Teresa

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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 because of that missing drop.

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

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I see God in every human being.

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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

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We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

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I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.

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Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.

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Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

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I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

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If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.

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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

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The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me There is nothing between.

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God doesn't require us to succeed he only requires that you try.

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I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did

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Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

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Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.

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When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

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Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.

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The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

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Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.

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Spread love everywhere you go First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

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Life is a promise fulfill it.

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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

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What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

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One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

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If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.

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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

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We are all pencils in the hand of God.

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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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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

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Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

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God loves the world through us.

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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God-the rest will be given.

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A life not lived for others is not a life.

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Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

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When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

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Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

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Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

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God doesn't require is to succeed; he only require that you try.

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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ...You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across.

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I always thought the bible would be better if there were light sabers in it. When I told this to God he banished me to Calcutta.

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I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

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I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wished he didn't trust me so much.

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If we had no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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If we pray, we will believe; if we believe, we will love; if we love, we will serve.

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If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise not disgrace because you know what you are.

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If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

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If you want to bring happiness into the world, go home and love your family.

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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 easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

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Kind words can be short and simple to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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Live simply so others may simply live.

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Peace begins with a smile.

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Please choose the way of peace…In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

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There should be less talk a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

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We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

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We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

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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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Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.

– Mother Teresa

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

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