"None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful."
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"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more."
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"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
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"And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something."
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"To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving."
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"If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway."
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"Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway."
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"If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that."
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"We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love."
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"God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share."
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"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
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"Life is an adventure, dare it."
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"God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try."
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"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."
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"There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways."
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"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
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"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
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"I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully."
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"Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
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"People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another."
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