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Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

— Mother Teresa Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles‎ (1998)

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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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