We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
MOTHER TERESAPrayer in action is love, love in action is service.
More Mother Teresa Quotes
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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
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Intense love does not measure it just gives.
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People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
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Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
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People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
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I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
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When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.
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What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
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Peace begins with a smile.
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The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.
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God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
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Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
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How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
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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.
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Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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Love to be real, it must cost – it must hurt – it must empty us of self.
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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
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God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.
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Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
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If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
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A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves.
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Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
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