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Catholic Quotes by Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa celebrates the generosity of the poor, saying they give us more than we give them. She urges us to pray for compassion and to be a living expression of kindness in our faces, eyes, and smiles. She also reminds us to listen in silence, for a heart full of noise cannot hear God’s voice.

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You know my God. My God is called love

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Purity is the fruit of prayer.

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Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant.

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Real prayer is union with God,...

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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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Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

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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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Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

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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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Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.

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The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give…

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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

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People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have…

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Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want…

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If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who…

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Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become…

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Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to…

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God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not…

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I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I…

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Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy…

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I believe God loves the world through us - through you and through me. We use Mother Teresa's name; it is only…

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Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are.…

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Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power…

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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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Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes,…

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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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If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your…

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As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to…

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We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of…

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Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put…

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We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why…

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People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through…

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Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result…

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The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to…

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If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better…

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To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to…

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Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him…

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Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So…

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All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and…

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The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence…

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

All works of love are works of peace.

Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to…

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.

Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.

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.