As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.
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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
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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
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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
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If you judge people, you have no time to love them
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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
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into doing it. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.
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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.
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I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't 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 he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?
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Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
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If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.
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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
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I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love
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One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
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People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
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If you judge poeple, you have no time to love them.
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If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
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Intense love does not measure, it just gives
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We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
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It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
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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.
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
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What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.
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Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
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There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread
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If you give what you do not need, it isn't giving.
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You can do no great things, just small things with great love.
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In this life we cannot do great things; We can only do small things with great love.
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