Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997), founder of the Missionary Sisters of Charity
A Simple Path
"We are unprofitable servants"
Do not worry about why problems exist in the world – just respond to
people's needs. Some say to me that if we give charity to others it'll
diminish the responsibility of government towards the needy and the poor. I
don't concern myself with this, because governments do not usually offer
love. I just do what I can do: the rest is not my business. God
has been so good to us: works of love are always a means of becoming closer
to God. Look at what Jesus did in His life on earth! He spent it just doing
good (Acts 10,38). I remind the sisters that three years of Jesus's life
were spent healing the sick and the lepers, children and other people; and
that's exactly what we're doing, preaching the Gospel through our actions.
It is a privilege for us to serve, and it's a real,
wholehearted service that we try and give. We feel what we are doing is
just a drop in the ocean, but that ocean would be less without that
drop.
