Doctrinal Highlight

Caring for the Poor and Needy

The Good Samaritan, by Walter Rane

“A journalist once questioned Mother Teresa of Calcutta about her hopeless task of rescuing the destitute in that city. He said that, statistically speaking, she was accomplishing absolutely nothing. This remarkable little woman retorted that her work was about love, not statistics. … She said she could keep the commandment to love God and neighbor by serving those within her reach with whatever resources she had. … Soberly, the journalist concluded that Christianity is obviously not a statistical endeavor. …

“So how might we ‘do what we can?’ …

“… I pay a personal tribute to President Thomas Spencer Monson. … The image of him I will cherish until I die is of him flying home from then–economically devastated East Germany in his house slippers because he had given away not only his extra suit and shirts but the very shoes from off his feet.”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “Are We Not All Beggars?” Liahona, Nov. 2014, 40, 41, 42.