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Quotes by Albanian Authors
"I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things."
"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."
"One filled with joy preaches without preaching."
"The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy."
"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired."
"I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."
"God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful."
"If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive."
"May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in."
"When you judge someone you have no time to love them."
"Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?"
"In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel."
"We are all pencils in the hand of God."
"It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love."
"Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love."
"In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world."
"We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?"
"You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty."
"Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community."
"The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family."
"If I look at the mass I will never act."
"These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind one's own business.Not to want to manage other people's affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To pass over the mistakes of others.To accept insults and injuries.To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.To be kind and gentle even under provocation.Never to stand on one's dignity.To choose always the hardest."
"Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person."
"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?"
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."
"If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
"Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
"If you judge people you have no time to love them."
"There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things."
"Never be so busy as not to think of others."
"We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion."
"Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?"
"In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway."
"You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have."
"Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism."
"He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness."
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