“Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice, continual union with God, fervor and generosity…God loves a cheerful giver.”
Mother Teresa in Come Be My Light, ed. Brian Kolodiejchuk (New York: Doubleday, 2007) 33.