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Mother Teresa
Albanian
Saint
Born:
Aug 26
,
1910
Died:
Sep 5
,
1997
God
Love
Poverty
Unwanted
Work
You
Related authors:
Francis of Assisi
Joan of Arc
Pope John Paul II
Saint Ambrose
Saint Augustine
Saint Ignatius
Saint Teresa of Avila
St. Jerome
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
Loneliness
Poverty
Feeling
Unwanted
Most
Terrible
Being
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
Smile
Peace
Begins
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.
Mother Teresa
God
Nature
Silence
Noise
Moon
Grass
Stars
Trees
Sun
Find
See
Able
Restlessness
Touch
He
Souls
How
Friend
Move
Cannot
Found
Grows
Flowers
Need
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
Peace
Other
Because
Forgotten
Each
Belong
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa
Sometimes
Poverty
Naked
Unwanted
Own
Think
Our
Unloved
Hungry
Kind
Must
Only
Remedy
Greatest
Being
Homeless
Homes
Start
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Love
Strength
Prayer
You
Joy
Net
Catch
Souls
Which
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Love
Fruit
Love Is
Every
Reach
Within
Hand
Times
Season
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
Love
You
Hurt
Hurts
Paradox
More
Only
Until
Found
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa
Me
You
Peace
Abortion
Mother
Own
Nothing
Destroyer
Between
Because
Greatest
Left
Child
Her
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa
Today
Feeling
Unwanted
Rather
Disease
Tuberculosis
Being
Biggest
Leprosy
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa
Poverty
Unwanted
Nothing
Think
Everybody
Unloved
Hunger
Eat
Greater
Than
Person
Forgotten
Being
Much
Who
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa
Work
Humble
Slow
Lonely
Unwanted
Touch
According
Graces
Dying
Ashamed
Poor
Us
Let Us
Received
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa
Love
Relationship
Gives
Does
Intense
Intense Love
Just
Measure
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
Love
Love Is
Remove
Difficult
Hunger
More
Than
Bread
Much
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa
Drop
Ocean
Ourselves
Would
Would-Be
Feel
Missing
Because
Doing
Just
Less
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Mother Teresa
Work
Happy
Miracle
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother Teresa
Nobody
Greatest
Diseases
Anybody
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother Teresa
Disguise
Them
Each
Each One
Jesus
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa
Love
Kindness
God
Peace
Money
Will
Rest
Insist
First
Understanding
Seek
Kingdom
Given
More
More And More
Come
Us
Let Us
Funds
Raising
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa
Work
Love
Mistake
People
Our
Vocation
Many
Jesus
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa
Life
Work
Love
God
Better
Will
Poverty
Our
See
Only
Because
How
How Much
Itself
Owe
Heaven
To Love
Them
Poor
Us
Much
Helping
Necessary
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Teresa
Love
You
Money
Giving
Satisfied
Enough
Enough Money
Everywhere
Got
Spread
Go
Hearts
Just
To Love
Them
Us
Your
Let Us
Need
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa
Angry
People
Some People
Live
Must
See
Some
Only
Could
Throwing
Feel
Well
Afford
Worked
Use
Reason
Waste
Why
Away
Things
If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
Love
Relationship
You
Lamp
Out
Putting
Message
Got
Heard
Oil
Want
Burning
Sent
Keep
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Mother Teresa
You
Neighbor
About
Do You Know
Know
Concerned
Want
Door
Next
Next Door
Your
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa
Love
Own
Rich
Hungry
Someone
Having
Call
Being
Wanted
Even
Cared
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