Monday, January 4, 2010

Mother Teresa's Nobel prize acceptance speech

"It is not enough for us to say, 'I love God, but I do not love my neighbor,'" she said, since in dying on the Cross, God had "[made] himself the hungry one — the naked one — the homeless one." Jesus' hunger, she said, is what "you and I must find" and alleviate "Christ in our hearts, Christ in the poor we meet, Christ in the smile we give and in the smile that we receive."

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