People say, "How can God let that happen? How can God remain silent about all the wicked things that happen on earth, about all the terrible crimes that are committed?" And here again self-righteousness makes us blind and deaf. We no longer perceive how God speaks in judgment through wars and all the other troubles in the world. Yes, He is speaking powerfully. Such judgments are His last attempt to win us back in love. .M. Basilea Schlink
About This Quote
The quote above was written by a woman named Mother Teresa. She was a nun in a convent in India who cared for the sick and poor in the area. She said that she was a very good person, but when she asked her superiors where she went wrong, they told her that she was a bad person because she did not live up to their standards of holiness. In other words, when Mother Teresa did the things they told her to do, it did not make her a good person.
In fact, when she was doing what they told her to do, it made her a bad person because she was not living up to their standards. To Mother Teresa, being a good person meant being faithful in every way, even when it hurt. She saw herself as a failure if she did not live up to their standards. That is why she has become such an inspirational figure because people can learn from her how to be good people who truly love God and others.
Some Similar Quotes
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.
- When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
- When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without...
- If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.
More Quotes By M. Basilea Schlink
- He has been waiting for us, waiting in vain, and His fatherly heart was filled with grief. When He then sought to call us home through chastenings, we rebelled against Him and His actions and again refused to come home to the Father. What else...
- With the word "Repent" He was beckoning to us as the Savior, offering us His love and salvation. But behind this word we can also see the grief of God that His children have turned away from Him.
- Is it not shameful to accept God's blessings as though they were our due without thinking of the heart of the Giver, who planned them all in love for us, and giving Him the response of love and gratitude?
- Our repentance should begin with the fact that we have no longer taken the Word of God seriously and have not come to repentance. We dared to use our own standards and were satisfied when we lived up to them. We are like the Pharisees.Outwardly...
- How quick we are to reject what others tell us! How fast we are to cast the blame on others, saying they always criticize us and find fault with us, they are not satisfied with anything we do, they do not understand us. But if...