“Poverty doesn’t only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity…”
“We know what poverty means, first of all, to be hungry for bread, to need clothing, and to not have a home. But there is a far greater kind of poverty. It means being unwanted, unloved, and neglected. It means having no one to call your own.”
- Mother Teresa in No Greater Love
“We know what poverty means, first of all, to be hungry for bread, to need clothing, and to not have a home. But there is a far greater kind of poverty. It means being unwanted, unloved, and neglected. It means having no one to call your own.”
- Mother Teresa in No Greater Love
God has used Mother Teresa to speak into my life in so many ways through this book. I think the most profound thing is she doesn't even try to be impressive or flashy or super-spiritual, she is just being real. Jesus was her reality and she knew nothing else. She just loved Christ and out of that flowed her life. Everything she says and writes about has so much punch because she saw the world so differently. She was seeing things as Christ sees them. She saw people for who they really were and treated them as such: children of God. People deserving of dignity and honor because they belong to the Lord.
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