Mother Teresa: The Devout Christian

Check out some of the wisdom of the super-intelligent Mother Teresa:


"Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness."
-Mother Teresa

"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."
-Mother Teresa

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
-Mother Teresa

"I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness."
-Mother Teresa

"I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment."
-Mother Teresa

"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world."
-Mother Teresa

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls."
-Mother Teresa

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So you see there are two sides to every story. I guess it's up to me to give the other side.

BTW, my favorite quote is the second ot last one. It really touched me actually.

 

Beautiful! If you go to India today, Mother teresa has a Godlike status, people love her for what she did for so many. Her selfless service will enable her to live on in the hearts of Indians forever.

 

In my opinion, it depends. Those who have so much faith in God, tend to see God and his children everywhere, for them selfless action and love are the only way to act.
For those who are ambitious, cling to superficial ideologies like nationalism, national pride, or hold cultish loyalty to a specific group tend to corrupt everything they come across and see everything through a lens of their own corruption. It is all in the mind.

For some one like Teresa, God is the one who gave her the power to do good. Because she had so much faith in God and really believed that everyone belonged to God's children category, she served everyone.

Adolf Hitler on the other hand had alterior motives... namely increasing the name of Germany and its power. He only had interest in christianity if it aided him in attaining his goals for power, he had corrupted it for himself and did not understand its essence.

 

She was a good person like a lot are. She used her faith to help others find the good in themselves.

Sense I was a little girl I have respected her so much for the gifts that she gave the world and how she showed what true kindness and love are.

 

Oh it's on! :tongue:

I make no claims the bible is factual. But I do think you can learn from it (as I state all the time).

Mother Teresa did EVERYTHING in the name of God and Christ. She was sincere in her beliefs and she was the ideal Christian. In the case of Hitler he was everything a true Christian is not. Therefore by power of deduction I will come to the conclusion that Hitler did not really believe what he was doing was Christian (because if he actually followed the teachings of Christ he would not had done what he did) and Mother Teresa did believe what she was doing was Christian (because she was extreamly Christ-like).

 

There ya go again with "true christian." If you're going to argue Hitler wasn't a christian, show some evidence that he didn't believe what he said he believed. Some conflicting quotes or anything would do fine. Now I'm not really disputing that Hitler probably didn't believe in the Christian faith, but you can't just discount him because he didn't act in a "christian" manner.

Because then you're saying that you can objectively define a christian manner, and that some people who say they are christian fall within that definition and some don't, and those that don't aren't really christian. Even if they truly believe that they are doing god's work. Like Fred Phelps.

 

You got to admit though fred phelps is sexy

 

I admire and revere mother theresa,and what christian priests have done in many parts of the world in the name of compassion. It is good, no doubt about it.


What I despise is the hypocritical attitude of many of them, using charity to convert non-christians to christianity, taking advantage of their illness and poverty. This is truly machiavellian and selfish and should be criticized.

And there are some christians too, who are not at all concerned about conversion , but who are interested in helping others in the name of humanity. I truly admire those and wish everyone to assimilate this trait in themselves.

 

Can you give proof that Hitler WAS Christian? Just because he said he was doesn't mean anything. I am jsut drawing my own conclusion through logical thinking.

 

Those Mother Teresa's quotes are beautiful, I wish I had the maturity to feel them (and live them) the way she did

 

You can live like she did. Remember that love is the most important thing of all. Show love to all around you, everyone you come in contact with, and those who you do not like. In this way, you can live like Mother Teresa.

Peace and love

 

Or did he just use Christianity as a tool to gain and keep power? And did he write Mein Kampf just to "prove" he was and further solidify himself as the German ruler? Very real possibilities.

 

Yep! also show compassion to yourself and forgive yourself if you lose that love sometimes. You can always start over again. The very essence of christianity is really in two things Peace with natural world/God and Love to all of the God's children.

 

No man knows what is in another mans' heart. Only God can. That said, men show men who they are by their actions. The bible says you will know them by their fruits, that is by what they produce (Actions!) So while only God knows what is in a mans heart, the wisdom of the word gives man a chance to decide who and what to believe. Peace

 

Oh I don't KNOW for a fact if Hitler ws a true Christian or not. No one does except for him (well he did). I am simply giving my arguement of why I don't think he was. It seems very very logical to me why he wasn't a true Christian and Mother Teresa was.

 

Christians need to follow Jesus's law of loving everyone. That, I believe, is the most important teaching of Jesus that all should follow, if they consider themselves Christians. Hitler was a mentally ill man whose actions should not be emulated. Love everyone!

Peace and love

 

But "typical Christian" does not mean true Christian. Just because many are living falsely doesn't mean the few who are living the right way are wrong. A long time ago people thought the Earth was flat. The few people who thought it was round were considered to be incorrect (and a little nuts). But who was right.

 

Can we PLEASE drop the Hitler references? Can we agree that he was a mentally ill man who believed in Christ and did not follow Christ's teachings? At least he tried to follow them in his own sick and demented way. I feel compassion for this truly unstable man whose personal demons affected millions of innocent people. I feel compassion for his victims. Love alone conquers hate. What is in your heart?

Peace and love

 

Nope I can't drop the subject because I don't agree he was trying to follow any teachings of Christ. In fact Christ was Jewish and the Bible says Jews were Gods origional people and some would even go to heaven...so if he really was Christian he wouldn't have killed Jews at all (cause would he kill Jesus, the Jew, if he came back to earth like Christians believe with happen one day?).

 

Why keep beating a dead horse? What does this accomplish?

Peace and love