People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered...
forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives...
be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies...
succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you...
be honest and frank anyway.
What you may spend years building, someone may destroy overnight...
build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, people may be jealous...
be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow...
do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough...
give the world the best you have anyway.
This was by her, it's quite deep. What do you think?
2007-07-09 00:32:22 · 16 answers · asked by Adia Azrael 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
.... I see people patronizing her religion instead of what she said...oh well. I really like one answer down there that pointed out she went to Calcutta just to help the people there but not to convert them.
2007-07-09 00:48:22 · update #1
THE WISDOM OF MOTHER TERESA
AIDS: The retribution for "improper sexual misconduct."
POVERTY: It is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot. The world is much helped by the suffering of poor people.
HOMELESSNESS: The problems facing us are due to the fact that we are too distant from Jesus.
UNEMPLOYMENT: First we must learn to love one another.
ABORTION: Is the greatest enemy of peace.
OVERPOPULATION: There is no problem of overpopulation, only [of] God's will.
The 'kindly' little nun's bedside manner was demonstrated during a filmed interview where she told of her attendance to a patient suffering unbearable pain from terminal cancer.
Smiling at the camera, she told of her counsel to the patient. "You are suffering like Christ on the cross. So Jesus must be kissing you." She then freely related the response of the sufferer, apparently unaware that it was a put-down.
"Then please tell him to stop kissing me," he said.
Suspicious of all the adulation of the late Mother Teresa?
Questions have been raised but these have been generally ignored by the media.
- - Why, with all those donations that pouring in, did her cancer patients have to go without painkillers?
- - Why were oft-used needles only 'sterilised' by rinsing in cold water?
- - And why, working in a country groaning under a huge population explosion that defeats all efforts at social improvement, she was so dead set against contraception?
2007-07-09 00:44:04 · answer #1 · answered by hypno_toad1 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
i'm particular India the place she spent an incredible form of her time will endure in techniques mom Theresa, Calcutta is unquestionably going to furnish her a great tribute, and the remainder of the international as nicely whilst her day comes. Princess Diana has aided many charities, and that's her time now. Amazingly one became youthful ,familiar and extremely beautiful, and the different saintly non secular, elderly. the two compassionate and form residing at appropriate to the comparable time, and increasing help to the unwell and the undesirable. mom Theresa's day of honor will come quickly
2016-10-20 09:47:31 · answer #2 · answered by hardage 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mom and sister met her in 1989.. They were living in Hong Kong and it was palm sunday, and the nuns at a local convent were having mass.. There werent enough prayer books, so they actually shared with Mother Theresa. They asked her if they could take a picture with her. but i guess because it was palm sunday, Mother Theresa said no.. however, after awhile, something changed her mind, and they got a picture with her..
its hard to believe shes a saint now...
2007-07-09 01:10:44 · answer #3 · answered by Natalie B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She is the only religious person i truly respect and would call a hero because her biggest ambition in life was to be able to give a dying person on the streets of calcutta a dignified death...and not to convert the hindus or muslims who flock to her for help.
2007-07-09 00:41:05 · answer #4 · answered by chryshal 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yeah...but it is sad..people now remember her only for quotes and stuff..we all forget her message..and she's not alone..Look at Gandhi,Jesus(AS), Mohammad(PBUH) etc..ew all just mention them, probably for proving a point or two, but in the meantime nothing hsa really changed for the better...my thought is that these people should not just stay as a part of memory, and should live on in our hearts, and we must make sure that their message is heard and carried on by everyone...
And that was a very beautiful quote and thankx for posting it...
2007-07-09 00:43:12 · answer #5 · answered by Lamya 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Mother Theresa was a wonderful person and quite wise. I also feel this way about The Buddha.& the Dali Lhama.Peaceful people get my respect...and only peaceful people....
2007-07-09 00:40:12 · answer #6 · answered by Thunderrolls 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nicely said.
I've always believed that when Princess Dianna died and that Mother Thereas passed away silently in her sleep, that it was God's intended purpose for Dianna to meet Mother Thereas at the Pearly Gates.
I think of Ecclesiastics that there is a time/purpose under the Heavens Scripture.
2007-07-09 00:38:41 · answer #7 · answered by kidlet_animal_luv 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
What an amazing woman she was! The world truly lost a saint, the first real saint we've seen in a LONG time, the day she died.
And yes, that's an incredible message. We should ALL live by her words.
2007-07-09 00:51:47 · answer #8 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the things she said and the things she did were not always in accordance. There is a lot more to mother Theresa than the popular myth, and not all of it is good.
2007-07-09 00:55:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
http://www.paradoxicalpeople.com/paradoxicalpeople/the_mother_teresa_connection/index.html
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0399149457/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-4289560-1054836#reader-link
This was not written by Mother Teresa - It was written by Kent M. Keith and she framed it and hung on her wall, and as a result, these quotes have been falsely attributed to her.
2007-07-09 01:29:53 · answer #10 · answered by queenthesbian 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋