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Where There Is Love, There Is God: Her Path To Closer Union With God And Greater Love For Others (2012)

by Mother Teresa(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

038553180X (ISBN13: 9780385531801)

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English

genre

Nonfiction

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review 1: This is a book I won from the GoodReads First Reads program. While I am thankful to be chosen to receive this book, I just couldn't finish it. I made it about halfway, but some of Mother Teresa's views didn't agree with mine. I am fine with people with different view points but she was hitting them so hard toward the reader that it turned me away from the book.I was hoping this would be more about Mother Teresa's life because I still think she was a very interesting person with many great insights. She often came across as a very caring person, but some of her quotes kind of came out as sounding condemning, even though she has quotes about not judging. I believe some of these "quotes" and insights came too close to home for me. My faith is also different from hers so I don... more't understand the amount of Catholicism in this (I was sometimes confused about her guidance).Overall, she is an admirable person but I have no desire to try to continue this. I apologize to the person who sent me the book for the giveaway. I tried my best to get through it, but I do not feel I can continue reading.
review 2: Interesting book. I read Mother Theresa like I read Dietrich Bonhoeffer: enthusiastic, but cautious. Bonhoeffer and Theresa are both full of weird, weird stuff. But those oddities are interrupted by nuggets of brilliant insight or crystal clear calls to action that make them worth reading. Mother Teresa is full of compassion and humility, two qualities that we could all use a little more of. She is also a radical believer whose life truly follows her faith. I find that admirable and more than a little inspiring. I think one of the key insights I take from this book is the idea that "whatever you did for the least of these" can be applied to all people, rich and poor, radical and conservative, Christian, Muslim, and atheist. Powerful words. less

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