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1 " By our life and deeds of love, we are making the Church fully present in the world today. "
― Mother Teresa , Where There Is Love, There Is God: Her Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others
2 " was Mother Teresa’s conviction that all people “deep down in their heart, believe in God. "
3 " God Is Love "
4 " In reply to the question “What or who is God?” Mother Teresa on one occasion said, “God is love and He loves you and we are precious to Him. He called us by our name. We belong to Him. He has created us in His image for greater things. God is love, God is joy, God is light, God is truth.” This statement encapsulates her belief in God and her experience of Him: God exists and is the Source of all that exists; "
5 " His very being is love; He has created us in his likeness with spiritual powers of intellect and free will, "
6 " with the ability to know and to love; He is a Father who loves each of us uniquely, personally, and He ardently desires our happiness "
7 " No hardship or suffering, her own or that of her poor, could undermine Mother Teresa’s conviction that God IS love, that all He does or permits is ultimately for some greater good and, therefore, an expression of His immense and unconditional love. "
8 " St. Augustine wrote at the beginning of his Confessions: “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” It "
