A reporters once told Mother Teresa, “I wouldn’t do what you do for a million dollars.” She responded, “Me neither. We live in community and among the suffering because it is what we are made for. Not only does it give life to others, but it gives us life as well.”
Mother Teresa (1910-1997) in Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010) 503.