It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.
-Mother Teresa
Peace and Love
2006-09-01 05:58:29 · 23 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That is good - it draws a line between those who do good works for "brownie points" and those who work for the good of others because they care.
2006-09-01 06:00:55 · answer #1 · answered by Nosy Parker 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Awesome! It gets to the heart of the matter -- motivation. You can do a good deed and have a sinful motivation which negates the goodness of the deed in God's eyes.
Why can't love be cooking for your family, cleaning up after someone, picking up trash, giving a bum money that they will probably use for something bad, etc.? If you do these with love they are good, not the action itself.
Thanks for sharing the quote!!
2006-09-01 13:03:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to put some toughlove into Don's ***.
Oh, yeah, Juliart, she was really a horrible person, you dumbass.
I'd love to see any of you hypocritical armchair internet christians here accomplish a fraction of the good Teresa did.
Do you morons ever wonder why there is such hostility towards christianity? Read Juliart's answer. They are too close minded to be functional within society.
2006-09-01 13:05:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Could both not go hand in hand?
If what we DO comes from a true sense of LOVE, than we will not cease DOING IT until it is enough. If we think of the things or people we LOVE, we will stop at nothing to continue DOING that which we LOVE or for those whom we LOVE.
2006-09-01 13:10:09 · answer #4 · answered by jenesaisquoi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mother Teresa had a profound understanding of Christianity and Jesus Christ. Today she is in heaven wear a many jeweled crown.
2006-09-01 13:01:09 · answer #5 · answered by Preacher 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I agree with that statement completely. Mother Teresa...one of my favorite humanitarians.
Blessings )O(
2006-09-01 13:13:51 · answer #6 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So true! A Scripture says that we as Christians are to render worship unto God wholeheartedly, not with "lipservice as menpleasers". It means that we are not to put on a show to satisfy anyone's curiosity. We are to be sincere and loving in all honesty and good works.
2006-09-01 13:02:59 · answer #7 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think it is beautiful and very true. I also like this one from her:
"Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self."
I think it is a good reminder about what real love is. It's more than just some pleasant feeling.
2006-09-01 13:06:52 · answer #8 · answered by anabasisx 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love it! it coincides with one of my favorite quotes:
If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart
- Buddha -
Another great Mother Theresa quote:
"Kind words may be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truely endless"
2006-09-01 13:02:33 · answer #9 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thats just pretty much common sense. Good quote.
2006-09-01 13:00:46 · answer #10 · answered by _Savage_ 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋