Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

Catholic nun dedicated to serving the poor in Calcutta.

A renowned humanitarian known for her unwavering dedication to helping the poorest and most vulnerable, she devoted her life to serving those in dire need. As the founder of a charitable organization, she focused on providing care to the sick, orphaned, and dying, often in the most challenging circumstances. Her compassion, humility, and tireless work earned her global admiration, leaving a lasting legacy of kindness and selfless service to humanity.

Mother Teresa Quotes about God

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  • We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.
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  • If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions. Be humble and you will never be disturbed. Remember St. Aloysius, who said he would continue to play billiards even if he knew he was going to die. Do you play well? Sleep well? Eat well? These are duties. Nothing is small for God.
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  • The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.
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  • You know my God. My God is called love
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  • Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
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  • You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.
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  • Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.
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  • I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.
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  • Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
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  • We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life. In it we are filled with the energy of God himself that makes us do all things with joy.
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  • In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.
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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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  • Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
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  • I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
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  • What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.
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  • In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
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  • At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.
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  • You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can makes happy.
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  • God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.
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  • I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day.
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  • We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God.
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  • God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold.
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  • What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.
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  • You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably.
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  • Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.
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