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> War is the killing of human beings. Who could even think that it could ever be 'JUST'? > There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I have always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim becomes a better Muslim, and a Catholic becomes a better Catholic. > Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work but we continue working as if it was a prayer. Prayer is not asking but putting oneself in the hands of God, at his disposition and listening to his voice in the depths of our hearts. If we pray, we will believe. If we believe, we will love. If we love, we will serve. > We can work until we drop. We can work excessively. If what we do is not connected to Love, however, our work is useless in the eyes of God. Good works are links that form a chain of Love. > When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed. I ask you of one thing. Do not tire of giving but do not give your leftovers. Give not as an obligation but as a desire. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. > I don't worry about orchestrating politics. Better said, I don't have time for worrying about these things. If we worry too much about ourselves, we will not have time for others. > Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk to them. To listen to someone who has no one to listen to is something very beautiful. > Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Peace begins with a smile. Don't only give your care but give your heart as well. > I have a feeling that we are in such a hurry that we do not have the time to look at each other and smile. Everybody seems to be in a hurry. No one has any time to give to others: children to their parents, parents to their children, and spouses to each other. World peace begins to break down at homes. > Peace and War begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need every family to have joy. > If we were humble, nothing would change us - neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone were to praise us, we also would not feel proud. > At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds that we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work. It is not how much we do but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give but how much love we put in the giving. > Little things are indeed little but to be faithful in little things is a great thing. We can do no great things but only small things with great love. > Nakedness is not only for a piece of clothing; nakedness is lack of human dignity and also that beautiful virtue of purity and lack of that respect for each other. > There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. This hunger you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. Love is the product of every season. > Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. > The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. The less you have the freer you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this no that but we are perfectly happy. > I fear just one thing 'Greed'. It is greed that motivated Judas to sell Jesus. > It is poverty to decide that an unborn child must die so that you may live as you like. > In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one. > Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread and by our understanding love, give them peace and joy. > If someone sees God in me I am very happy. I see God in everyone, especially in those who suffer. > "I can't breathe anymore," with those words Mother Teresa fell back on her bed and passed away. |
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