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

— Mother Teresa Malcolm Muggeridge in Something Beautiful for God (1971)

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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?

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

We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

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