“If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not because God didn’t care for them, but because you and I didn’t give, were not instruments of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise–in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1919-1997) in Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1996) 24.