[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 23772]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       REMEMBERING MOTHER TERESA

  Mr. ALLARD. Mr. President, Mother Teresa will soon be beatified by 
Pope John Paul II in Rome, and I would like to take this opportunity to 
honor the model that she was for the world by promoting love and 
respect for all.
  We in Congress often get overwhelmed with the amount of work and 
issues that we are faced with each day, but Mother Teresa put into 
perspective our mission when she said, ``We ourselves feel that what we 
are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less 
because of that missing drop.''
  Mother Teresa embodied the ultimate spirit of public service by 
giving 100 percent of herself to her constituents: the poor, the 
hungry, the homeless and, most of all, the unloved. Her determination 
to make the world a better place has left its mark on history and 
humanity.
  ``It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into doing. It 
is not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving,'' said 
Mother Teresa. Let us not forget this valuable wisdom as the world 
honors Mother Teresa next month.

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