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Mother Teresa Quotes - Page 14

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Everything that is not given is lost.

Everything that is not given is lost.

Lost Everything, Lost, Given

I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

Heart, Catholic, India

Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

How much love did you put into what you did?

Much Love

"God's Little Devotional Book for Girls". Book by W. B Freeman, p. 205, 2004.

Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions. These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents, and have grown up so full of love and joy!

Children, Couple, Home

Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.98, Image

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

Heart, Profound, Joy

Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

There is no great difference in reality between one country and another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, they may have a different education or position; but they are all the same. They are all people to be loved.

Country, Reality, Differences

"Mother Teresa: Essential Writings".

Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.

Hurt, Saint, Serving Others

Give, but give until it hurts.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Hurt

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.

Sad, Sympathy, Thinking

Speech by the President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at the Birth Centenary Celebrations of Mother Teresa, pib.nic.in. August 30, 2010.

Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.

Hurt, Mercy, Reach Out

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

Fear, Anger, Doe

Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity will lead to peace.

Humility, Unity

"In My Own Words".

You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.

Love, Country, Home

Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.174, Image

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.

Jesus, Stress, Christ

even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.

God, Empty

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

Inspirational Life, Giving, Way

"Mother Teresa: Essential Writings".

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.

Beautiful, Passion, Suffering

Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.49, New World Library

Nobody can convert you except God.

Source: mattersindia.com

I love all religions. ... If people become better Hindus, better Muslims, better Buddhists by our acts of love, then there is something else growing there." She upheld that there are many ways to God': "All is God - Buddists, Hindus, Christians, etc., all have access to the same God."

Christian, Buddhist, People

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Love, Grandchildren, Hungry Eyes

Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

Yoga, Gun, Compassion

Life is beauty, admire it.

Beauty, Life Is, Admire

"Life Is". Poem by Mother Teresa, www.beliefnet.com.

People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.

People, Wish, Saint

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

Life, Graduation, Great Love

Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.34, Random House

I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.

Love, Strength, Home

Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

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