Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light
(Brian Kolodiejchuk)
-correspondence between Mother Theresa and her religious peers highlighting personal doubts and fears during her mission:
‘So many unanswered questions live within me afraid to uncover them — because of the blasphemy — If there be God — please forgive me — When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven — there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives & hurt my very soul. — I am told God loves me — and yet the reality of darkness & coldness & emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul. Did I make a mistake in surrendering blindly to the Call of the Sacred Heart?’
‘If this brings You glory — if souls are brought to you — with joy I accept all to the end of my life.’
‘Please destroy any letters or anything I have written.’
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The Messenger of God: Muhammad
~M. Fethullah Gülen
-an analysis of the prophet’s life. Gülen is a well-respected Sunni writer and scholar, known for his humanitarian anti-violent interpretation of Islamic scripture:
‘When belief in God’s Unity is removed from people’s hearts, their minds and souls darken, standards change, and things and the world are judged from false points of view.’ The Qur’an defines this moral, spiritual, social, and even economic and scientific state as ignorance ( jahiliyya ):
Or like darkness on a deep sea obscure, covered by a wave, above which is a cloud. Layers of darkness one upon the other. When he holds out his hand, well-nigh he cannot see it. And he for whom God has assigned no light, for him there is no light. (24:40 ) ‘
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