"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."
-Mother Teresa
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"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.“
-Mother Teresa
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"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."
-Mother Teresa
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"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
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"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
-Mother Teresa
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"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible."
-Mother Teresa
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"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
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