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Post by mary on Mar 28, 2011 7:54:29 GMT -5
Sayings of Mother Teresa
The greatest fulfillment is in doing God's will.
We do not have to do great things,
only small things with great love.
We do not have to be extraordinary in any way,
I can do what you can't do and you can do what I can't do.
Together we can do something beautiful for God.
We can be the little pencils in the hand of God .
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Post by mary on Mar 30, 2011 8:44:47 GMT -5
Sayings of Mother Teresa
Suffering, If it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.
Remember that the passion of Christ ends always in the joy of the resurrection of Christ, so when you feel in your heart the suffering of Christ, remember the resurrection has to come.
The joy of Easter has to dawn.
Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of the risen Chirs
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Post by mary on Apr 1, 2011 7:51:00 GMT -5
Sayings of Mother Teresa
We all long for heaven where God Is,
but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now, to be happy with him at this very moment.
But being happy with him now means loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him for all the twenty-four hours, touching him in his distressing disguise.
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Post by mary on Apr 4, 2011 6:31:01 GMT -5
Mother Teresa Said...
"Cheerfulness should be one of the main points of our religious life.
A cheerful giver is a great giver.
Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person, who, forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please God in all she does for souls.
Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice, continual union with God, fervor and generosity."
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Post by mary on Apr 6, 2011 6:11:43 GMT -5
Sayings of Mother Teresa
God is Love. He loves each one of us.
We read something beautiful in the Scriptures; " I have called you by your name, your are mine, Water will not drown you, fire will not burn you, I will give up nations for you, you are precious to me, I love you.
Even if a mother could forget her child, I will not forget you.
I have carved you on the palm of my Hand."
This is God speaking to you and to me,
to that leper man and the alcoholic woman, to the person with a mental handicap and to the little child; YOU ARE PRECIOUS TO ME.
I LOVE YOU.
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Post by mary on Apr 11, 2011 6:56:20 GMT -5
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much. I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
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.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living _expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
When Christ said: ''I was hungry and you fed me,'' he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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Post by mary on Apr 14, 2011 6:05:45 GMT -5
Sayings of Mother Teresa
When it is hard, remember we are not called to be successful but to be faithful.
Fidelity is important in the least things, not for their own sake -- for this is the work of small minds -- but for the sake of the great thing which is the will of God.
St. Augustine said, " Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.
Is not Our Lord equally the same in a small Host as in a great one?
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Post by mary on May 5, 2011 5:58:45 GMT -5
Mother Teresa's Favorite Prayers
Prayer for peace
Lead me from death to life,
from lies to truth
Lead me from despair to hope
from fear to trust
Lead me from hatred to love
from war to peace
Let peace fill our heart, our world
our universe... peace, peace, peace.
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Post by mary on May 26, 2011 15:24:40 GMT -5
Mother Teresa Said...
I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence - we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters. Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is the soul - and it brings you closer to God. It also gives you a clean and pure heart. A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.
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Post by mary on May 27, 2011 15:27:33 GMT -5
Mother Teresa said...
If you are searching for God and do not know where to begin, learn to pray and take the trouble to pray every day. You can pray at work - work doesn't have to stop prayer and prayer doesn't have to stop work. Tell Him everything, talk to Him. He is our father, He is to us all whatever religion we are. We are all created by God, we are his children. We have to put our trust in Him, believe in Him, work for Him. And if we pray, we will get all the answers we need.
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Call on the angels! Especially this day. Call them with kindness! Send them before you in every situation and watch your circumstances improve and problems resolve in ways you could not have imagined.