There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.
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We are all pencils in the hand of God.Mother Teresa
Former President Jimmy Carter released a statement which said that he and his wife, Rosalyn, were saddened ... her great humanitarian work, her tireless and selfless devotion to others, her sense of mercy and humility, were beacons of light in this world. Our best homage to her can be to seek and cultivate the goodness within ourselves and others.
Mother Teresa
We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God I will strip my heart of all created things I will live in poverty and detachment I will renounce my will, my inclinations
Mother Teresa
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
Mother Teresa
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
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