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It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

— Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhi)

More from Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhi)

  1. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
  2. It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
  3. If we have no peace, it is because we forget we belong to each other.
  4. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless....
  5. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
  6. I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace …
  7. Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
  8. 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?

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  • choice
  • ethics
  • life
  • sacrifice

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