forgotten people, who needed love most. “There are poor people everywhere,” she said,
“but the deepest poverty is not being loved.”
Her remarkable compassion touched people’s hearts, and word began to spread.
Newspapers started writing about “The Saint of The Gutters” and, before long, Mother
Teresa was known all over the world.
She was given the Nobel Peace Prize for her work but always gave credit to other people
and to God. Her advice was to do little things to help others, with love. “There are many
people who can do big things,” she said, “but there are very few people who will do the
small things.”
By doing the small things with love, Mother Teresa changed the world. She died in 1997,
at age eighty-seven, and many consider her to have been a real-life saint.
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