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Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.
Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.
Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.
The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.
I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven.
Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.
We are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of peace).
Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.
They too, are created by the same loving hand of God which Created us...It is our duty to Protect Them and to promote their well-being.
I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.
Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.
Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.
I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all do like that.
It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.
One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.
None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.
Each time anyone comes in contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love.
The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.
Let us love one another as God loves each one of us. And where does this love begin? In our own home. How does it begin? By praying together.
Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility
Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.
The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything.
It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!
It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.
Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared.
Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.
I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.
Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.
True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love
Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.
If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who can show him God's love.
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.
God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.
Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.
Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?
People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.
God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.