Hey, even Mother Theresa struggled to believe in God...?

Question

What do ya think?

Answer 1

She said she struggled with her faith, I have no reason to doubt her words.

Answer 2

Believing in something isn't an easy thing to do so it doesn't surprise me that people would struggle with believing in God. Faith is trusting and we are not so quick to trust everything we see are hear. Maybe that's why God requires our faith because that signifies trust and if we trust then we can believe. Just like we trust in gravity so we walk around knowing we won't fly off into space. We trust that there will be air we can breath so the majority of us don't walk around carrying oxygen tanks on our backs-we believe.

Answer 3

The path of travel to the higher planes of eixistence when onecan experience the Mercies of Divinity more directly are tough for one and all. I am sure it was tough for MT to relate to the suffering she witnessed all around her/us, knowing that the Merciful One had in His power to end it all but does not!

All suffering is an opportunity for the good of mankind to remove it, which is being done. Suffering is like the work to be done in the family garden, for which the grand pa takes his three year old grandson to pull out the weeds. The child loves the concept of "helping" grand pa, and it is an opportunity for grand pa to share the "treat" after the work is done, when in fact grand pa did not need the child nor did the child help grand pa that much to begin with, but it is indeed an opportunity for the child to relate and connect with grand pa and learn a few things in the process.

We all go through conditions at times where we question and try to discover, which hopefully causes us to attach ourselves to Him, Almighty. I am sure MT went through that process as well. Every great person from Moses to Jesus or our Prophet (of Islam) or lesser folks such as myself have to traverse through the wilderness to reach the higher planes of knowledge. Hopefully through the mercy of the Mighty One, we come out of it and not fall into the abyss of oblivion in the heart of the wilderness!!

The highest achievement for man is to connect with the Creator!! The path is not a bed of roses. Has never been one!! But the final destination is worth it all!!

I hope this makes sense?

Answer 4

"Mother" Teresa is that she was a con artist. A fraud. A liar and a hypocrite.

http://www.randi.org/jr/102502.html
Is a Mother Teresa-inspired miracle that's been recognized by the Vatican a complete and utter fraud? Absolutely, says the husband of a woman whose purported tumor vanished after she applied a medallion of the beloved nun to the site of her pain. "My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle," Seiku Besra told Time magazine.

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=shields_18_ 1
When Mother spoke publicly, she never asked for money, but she did encourage people to make sacrifices for the poor, to "give until it hurts." Many people did - and they gave it to her. We received touching letters from people, sometimes apparently poor themselves, who were making sacrifices to send us a little money for the starving people in Africa, the flood victims in Bangladesh, or the poor children in India. Most of the money sat in our bank accounts.

http://www.salon.com/sept97/news/news3970905.html
What about her celebrated concern for the poor and the weak? Here the record is much murkier than her saintly image would suggest. I have been shown testimony from leading American and British physicians, expressing their concern at the extremely low standard of medicine practiced in her small Calcutta clinics. No pain killers, syringes washed in cold water, a fatalistic attitude toward death and a strict regimen for the patients. No public accounts were made available by her "missionaries of Charity" but enormous sums are known to have been raised. The income from such awards as the Nobel Prize is alone enough to maintain a sizable operation. In one on-the-record interview, Mother Teresa spoke with pride of having opened more than 500 convents in 125 countries, "not counting India." It seemed more than probable that money donated by well-wishers for the relief of suffering was being employed for the purpose of religious proselytizing by the "missionary multinational."