Some thoughts

The other day I read a book about Mother Teresa called "A Simple Path".
Two of the many thoughts I had while reading the book:

When asked how she can go on day after day and do what she does when there are so many problems she replied,
"We are not called to be successful, we are called to be faithful." p.153

And from Brother Geoff, Missionaries of Charity Brothers,

"We are constantly asked, "Instead of giving a man a fish, why don't you teach him to fish?" and we answer that most of our poor people wouldn't have the strength to even hold a fishing rod. And I often think that this is where there is confusion - and sometimes criticism - about our work, because no distinction is made between our kind of poor and other kinds of poor." p.128