Mother Teresa — Spiritual Quotes

154 quotes · Missionary, Nun

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Mother Teresa Quotes

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Mother Teresa

Missionary, Nun

Spiritual

“We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.”

Reason Habit God Is There

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Mother Teresa

Missionary, Nun

Spiritual

“We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.”

Want Able Christ

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Spiritual

“If you want to pray better, you have to pray more.”

Want Ifs Praying

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Spiritual

“Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.”

Empty

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“By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.”

Want Ifs

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“Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess”

Giving Giving Up Poverty

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“It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.”

America Poverty India

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“I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it. I don't understand.”

Children Asking

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“People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.”

People Giving God

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“It is not possible to engage in the direct apostolate without being a soul of prayer. We must be aware of oneness with Christ, as he was aware of oneness with his Father. Our activity is truly apostolic only insofar as we permit him to work in us and through us with his power, with his desire, with his love.”

Father Prayer Oneness

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“The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.”

Jesus Action Our Love

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Spiritual

“Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe. —contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation. —universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor.”

Heart Water Grace

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