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I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.

— 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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