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The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.


Teresa R. Funke

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MOTHER TERESA The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left ...
MOTHER TERESA There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only...
MOTHER TERESA Suddenly I could control every aspect of publishing, and it was incredibly empowering! I didn't ...
TERESA MEDEIROS I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to...
TERESA WRIGHT Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need...
MOTHER TERESA If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
MOTHER TERESA Peace begins with a smile.
MOTHER TERESA The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left...
MOTHER TERESA If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have t...
MOTHER TERESA Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
MOTHER TERESA We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwan...
MOTHER TERESA The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
MOTHER TERESA Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
MOTHER TERESA Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger,...
MOTHER TERESA If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
MOTHER TERESA Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
MOTHER TERESA Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
MOTHER TERESA Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
MOTHER TERESA We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
MOTHER TERESA Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
MOTHER TERESA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less be...
MOTHER TERESA Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
MOTHER TERESA We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully. Do not let a chance pass you by. It is ...
MOTHER TERESA I hope that what you give me comes not from your surplus but it is the fruit of a sacrifice made for...
MOTHER TERESA Christ says: I know you through and through – I know everything about you. The very hairs of your ...
MOTHER TERESA Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doin...
MOTHER TERESA Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have ...
MOTHER TERESA every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing
MOTHER TERESA Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we was...
MOTHER TERESA God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work ...
MOTHER TERESA God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold...
MOTHER TERESA The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do someth...
MOTHER TERESA Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what...
MOTHER TERESA I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything a...
MOTHER TERESA We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
MOTHER TERESA Never be so busy as not to think of others.
MOTHER TERESA