“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
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Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu), commonly known as Mother Teresa and honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman-Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje, the modern-day capital of Northern Macedonia, and moved to Ireland after 18 years, where she then spent most of the rest of her life. In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman-Catholic religious congregation that treats those who qre dying of AIDS/HIV, leprosy, tuberculosis. The congregation also runs a variety of other services including soup kitchens, mobile clinics, dispensaries, orphanages, schools, and children's and family counselling programs. The members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, and "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor". She has been awarded with both the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize, as well as the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was cononised by the Catholic Church on September 4th, 2016, with her feast day being set annually for September 5th. Before and after her death, she has been seen to be a figure of both controversy and praise. While her charity work has often been admired, she has also been criticized for her views on abortion, contraception, and the poor conditions of her homes where there was a lack of medical necessities such as anesthesia despite millions of dollars in funding.
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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
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“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
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“Peace begins with a smile..”
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“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather...”
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“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
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“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 lie...”
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“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
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“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.”
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“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
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“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
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“God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.”
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“I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.”
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“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
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“Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love fo...”
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“We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.”
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“Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.”
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“Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.”
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“To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
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“We can do no great things-only small things with great love.”
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“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, de...”
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