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Something Beautiful for God (Paperback) tagged "mother teresa" 2 times

Something Beautiful for God
Something Beautiful for God (Paperback)
By Malcolm Muggeridge

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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Truly Beautiful, May 11, 2002
By William Krischke (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This really isn't a biography of Mother Teresa so much as it is a document in reflection on one man's encounters with her. Mother Teresa is such a dynamic and profound personality, indeed so much a reflection of her Savior, that just meeting her has inspired much reflection, conviction, and devotion in the mind and heart of Malcolm Muggeridge. She is that rare persona who somehow ascends past celebrity status. Celebrities, in the end, are entertainment. Mother Teresa's presence and personality are much more than entertainment: with hardly a word she challenges and changes people. The best parts of this book have more to do with Muggeridge's inner searching than with Teresa's life and work.

I'm sure that she would shy away from all this praise. Yet truly she is a reflection of her Savior, which is her heart's desire. This strange and unearthly power she has to affect lives with nothing more than her presence perhaps can help us understand how an illiterate carpenter from the backwaters of the world managed to split history in half and utterly turn the world upside down. When you draw near to God, even just a reflection of Him, you cannot help but be changed.

What I love most about Mother Teresa, what inspires and challenges me the most, is her ability, maybe even insistence, in seeing Christ in the poor and destitute that she cared for. He said `whatsoever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me' and she takes it seriously -- and the result is beautiful beyond comparison. It makes my heart leap.

Thank you, Lord, for sending us a woman like your servant Teresa to remind us of your face, your call, and your love. We are eternally grateful.

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Beauty of God in a Nun, May 15, 2004
By Xavier Thelakkatt (Rush City, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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Among the hundreds of books written on Mother Teresa and her ministry, this is one of the earliest and the best. It has the very words of Mother Teresa with regard to her life, vocation and apostolate. The photographs and interviews included in the book make the portrayal of this nun and her work almost complete. Making a TV program about her and writing this book, were life-changing experiences for Malcolm Muggeridge. For someone planning to learn about Mother Teresa this may be the book to begin with.
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a deeply moving account...., June 2, 2000
By Craig Chalquist, PhD, author of TERRAPSYCHOLO... (Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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....of Mother Teresa's activities with the poor, written with grace and conviction. My favorite book about her and her work. You won't read this and remain unchanged by it.
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