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Prayer Quotes by Mother Teresa

83 Prayer quotes by Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa teaches that joy is a form of prayer, giving strength, love, and a way to reach others. She says we cannot truly know God without praying, and that prayer leads to belief, love, and service. She also calls prayer the mortar that holds our community together.

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Helping hands are better than Praying Lips

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If you pray more you will pray better.

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Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

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Real prayer is union with God,...

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Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

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Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.

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Purity is the fruit of prayer.

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If you want to pray better, you have to pray more.

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Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

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All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.

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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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May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

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Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

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Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.

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By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.

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The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

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We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of…

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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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In reality, there is only one true prayer, only one substantial prayer: Christ himself. There is only one voice which rises above…

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We must love prayer. It widens the heart to the point of making it capable of containing the gift that God makes…

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God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our…

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Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in…

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Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy…

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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,…

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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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My mother and sister must be very happy to be home with God, and I am sure their love and prayers are…

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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…

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It is not possible to engage in the direct apostolate without being a soul of prayer. We must be aware of oneness…

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Christ prays in me, Christ works in me, Christ thinks in me, Christ looks through my eyes, Christ speaks through my words,…

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Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. Ask and seek and you heart will grow…

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The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence…

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A family that prays together stays together. As we are united at this moment, let us join also the prayer of all…

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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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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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There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that…

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My secret is simple -- I pray.

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Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

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If you're too busy to pray...you're too busy

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We cannot really know God if we do not pray.

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Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.

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Holy living consists in doing God's work with a smile.

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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…

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand...

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

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

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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.