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A simple kitchen reminds us that home is the first place to share love and care. The quotes say that helping the poor, feeding the hungry, and giving respect begin inside one’s own home. They also speak of peace, unity, and the feeling of a loving family.

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In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

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A Mother is the heart of the home

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If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

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What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

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Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays…

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Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start

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Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

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We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

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In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.

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I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news…

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We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family

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Let us love one another as God loves each one of us. And where does this love begin? In our own home.…

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I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the…

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It is easy to love the people far away.It is not always easy to love those close to us. Bring love into…

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Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter…

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Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in…

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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 don't need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that…

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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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People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And…

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Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who…

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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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Jesus has said "Come, blessed of my Father, take the seat in the kingdom prepared for you, because I was hungry you…

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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that…

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In our home (for the dying at Kali Ghat) in Calcutta, there is great peace, unity and love. Many Hindu families bring…

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Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are in your own homes and…

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Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give…

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that…

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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

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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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Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it…

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Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and…

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If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give…

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When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home…

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You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material…

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I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love…

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Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated…

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As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries…

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We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love.…

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