Day 05: Favorite Quote

Mother Teresa had incredible passion in sharing God's love with those starving to be known and cared for. So many of her quotes can be applied to daily life as a Christian and as a childcare counselor. Its hard to pick just one, but I think the first listed below might be my favorite!

"Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness."

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."

"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. "

"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. "

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."

"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. " 

"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus." 

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. " 

"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible." 

-Mother Teresa