A Spiritual Poverty

Mother Teresa was perhaps the greatest opponent of poverty in the last century. She fought long and hard against the economic hardships which many of the poor in the world obviously face.

Yet when she arrived in the United States for the first time, she said that we suffer from a far greater want. We live in spiritual poverty, which is much worse than simply having little or no cash on hand.

It is an idea which we ought to consider carefully, because she is right. What profit a man to gain the world yet lose his soul?