Questions about mother theresa?!?

Question

How does she inspire u?

How could u b like her?

Why should she b a saint?

Answer 1

Mother Teresa should inspire anyone, simply because she acted on her faith, even though her faith was evidently not yet perfected.

Anyone who does a service out of love, with no regard for compensation or reward, can be like her ... although we're not likely to see anyone who is truly like her, for some time to come.

The measure of sainthood is the certainty that God has judged a particular soul to heaven.

There's no doubt that Teresa was properly baptized. She made good use of all the sacraments and devotions of the church, and she did more charitable work in the name of God, than anyone, before or since.

1Co 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1Co 13:2 And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
1Co 13:3 And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
1Co 13:4 Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up,
1Co 13:5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil:
1Co 13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth:
1Co 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
1Co 13:8 Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void or tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be destroyed.
1Co 13:9 For we know in part: and we prophesy in part.
1Co 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
1Co 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.
1Co 13:12 We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.
1Co 13:13 And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.

If Teresa didn't make it to heaven, what can all the rest of us expect?

As for her critics ... what a bunch of pathetic losers!

Answer 2

Mother Teresa of Calcutta gave her life to the poor. If you want to hear a really good message from her, look up

The final analysis - by Mother Teresa of Calcutta

That in itself, will tell you what she was all about.

Don't forget here, that this is not a request from Mother Teresa herself.
In fact I am sure that she would turn it down. She didn't regard herself as a Saint. It is the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that is wanting to make her a Saint.

Answer 3

She shouldnt be a saint. She took money from despot leaders and stolen money from the US Govt and then refused to return it. She even struggled with her belief in God - hardly the work of a saint, no?? She doesnt inspire me at all - she asked Catholics in Ireland to vote AGAINST a change to their constitution that would make divorce legal - because divorce is bad in the eyes of God. A year later, she turned around and said that she hoped that Lady Diana would "find happiness since getting divorced." Apparently, she holds a double standard for the rich and the poor. She PUBLICALLY refused free cataract surgery - then secretly had the procedure done...

Answer 4

Anyone who devotes their lives to doing Gods work comes to the point of question. The truth is most Christians will question their faith at some point in time. She just had the guts to admit it in public. If we are honest all of us question the motive of God giving power of evil to reign over the world and allow so much pain and suffering in the world.
I could not be like her , I guess to be honest I could not sacrifice my life to helping others.
I am not Catholic however love the faith. I believe she should be declared a Saint.

Answer 5

She doesn't. I don't aspire to be a hypocrite and a liar.

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http://website.lineone.net/~bajuu/
In December 1984, three and a half thousand people died in Bhopal from inhaling toxic gas, leaked by the multinational giant Union Carbide, in the worst industrial accident the world has ever seen. The number of people actually affected cannot be logged as the effects are long-standing and future generations would probably continue to suffer.

Mother Teresa, whose post-Nobel reputation within India was then very high indeed, rushed in to Bhopal like an international dignitary. Her contribution in Bhopal has become a legend: she looked at the carnage, nodded gravely three times and said, "I say, forgive." There was a stunned silence in the audience. She took in the incredulity, nodded again, and repeated, "I say, forgive". Then she quickly wafted away, like visiting royalty. Her comments would have been somewhat justified if she had sent in her Missionaries of Charity to help in any way. But to come in unannounced, and make an insensitive comment like that so early on, was nothing short of an insult to the dead and suffering. In the wider world however, her image became even more enhanced, as she was seen even more like Jesus Christ, who would turn the other cheek, although in this instance the cheek was not hers. People in Bhopal were not amused; it is said that the only reason Mother escaped being seriously heckled was by dint of being an elderly woman.

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."

Answer 6

She inspires bile to rise in my throat.

I try every day to not be like her, and instead be a good person.

I don't care if she's made a saint or not, evil does tend to triumph so saint away.

Answer 7

How can you make a saint out of a woman that said she doubted the existence of God and Heaven? You would be insulting her.

Answer 8

She inspires me because she responded to hatred with love,
ignorance with compassion,
pain with caring,
injustice with clarity andcourage,
spiritual dryness with greater fidelity to Her Savior,,difficulties with prayer and determination,
intolerance with appreciation of religious,ethnic and such diversity,and hurt with healing.
She inspires me to grow in faith,hope and love in Christ

Bl Mother Teresa should be acclaimed a saint by all because she practices what she preached and saw Jesus to be served in everyone and exuded holiness ,grace
and goodness

Icould be like her by striving to see Jesus in everybody and in serving Him in the sick and needy and by cultivating compassio and detachment from the opinions others have of me.

Answer 9

**How does she inspire u?**
She doesn't

**How could u b like her?**
I am. Just like her, I doubt the existence of god

**Why should she b a saint?**
She shouldn't. She said that it was good for all those people to suffer in poverty because it makes their faith in god stronger when she herself had no faith. What a jerk she was!