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The quotations of

Mother Teresa

Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary

1910–1997

30 quotes, most often on Love, Charity and God.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
- Charity
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.
- Charity
It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
- Charity
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
- Charity
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
- Charity
- Christianity
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?
Statement of 1977, as quoted in Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2011) by Susan Ratcliffe, p. 373
- Charity
- God

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