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We are misunderstood, we are misrepresented, we are misreported. We are not nurses, we are not doctors, we are not teachers, we are not social workers. We are religious, we are religious, we are religious.

— Mother Teresa

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Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love....The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (2007)

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

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?

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Malcolm Muggeridge in Something Beautiful for God (1971)

From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day.

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