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Quotes by Albanian Authors
"We can do no great things-only small things with great love."
"May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in."
"Let Him empty and transform you ;and afterwards fill the chalice of your hearts to the brim, that you in your turn, may give of your abundance. Seek Him. Knowledge will make you strong as death. Love Him trustfully without looking back, without fear. Believe that Jesus and Jesus alone is life. Serve Jesus, casting aside and forgetting all that troubles or worries you, make loved the love that is not loved."
"Never be so busy as not to think of others."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things."
"The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family."
"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?"
"He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness."
"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 think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired."
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."
"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."
"If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive."
"Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear."
"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."
"If I look at the mass I will never act."
"Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love."
"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?"
"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."
"We are all pencils in the hand of God."
"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 silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence."
"Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism."
"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."
"If you judge people you have no time to love them."
"We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion."
"We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him - not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything - to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation."
"In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway."
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