“I am afraid we are getting too much publicity.—A few things I heard this evening made me feel cold with fear. God preserve us. Please pray for me—that I be nothing to the world and let the world be nothing to me.”
[Mother Teresa] was aware that it was “God’s work”; she was but an instrument in bringing “souls to God—and God to souls.” for such a mission, prayer and sacrifice were essential: united to Jesus’ redemptive suffering.” [Galatians 2:20]Mother Teresa in her letters to Archbishop Périer on June 5, 1947 and April 17, 1953 as collected in Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light edited with commentary by Brian Kolodiejchuck (New York: Doubleday, 2007) 152-153.