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Giving Quotes by Mother Teresa

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A heart full of love can share joy even when little is given. Teresa writes that emptying ourselves creates space for God to fill us, and that the poor give us more than we can return. She also urges hands to serve and hearts to love without clinging to success.

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Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

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

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Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.

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If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.

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Give, but give until it hurts.

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Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

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Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.

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Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

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O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead…

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People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

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The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.

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If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

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It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

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We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.

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I always say "if you are afraid of them (the unborn), give them to me. Please, don't kill them."

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To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured…

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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. God…

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Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely…

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Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge…

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The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a…

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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…

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Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them…

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Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to…

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A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing…

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The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you…

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Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved...…

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You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding,…

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Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness…

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Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, your heart so full of love and humility,…

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When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But…

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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…

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Like Mary, let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace…

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These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more:…

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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how…

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Like her [Mary], let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of…

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Your spirit is the duster of any spider web. Behind every finish line, there is a start one. Behind every success, there…

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There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage…

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Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he…

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If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win…

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We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally;…

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So many signatures for such a small heart.

They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one…

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.