Some quotations from the book..
By Shane Claiborne. Foreword by Jim Wallis
Dedicated to all the hypocrites, cowards and fools.... like me.
May we find the Way, the Truth, and the Life in a world of shortcuts, deceptions and death.
" When Mother Teresa died, I was in an interview with some reporter who asked me if Mother Teresa's spirit will live on. I said, " To be honest, Mother Teresa died a long time ago, when she gave her life to Jesus. The joy and compassion and love that the world finds so magnetic are noly Jesus, that is eternal." I saw that eternal love all over Calcutta. I did indeed see Christ in Mother Teresa, but i also found Christ in the lepers, the children, the destitutes, the workers.
Mother Teresa always said," Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have the eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."
"In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distresssing disguises."
"We can do no great things, but small things with great love"
When we look through the eyes of Jesus, we see new things in people. In the murderers, we see our own hatred. In the addicts we see our own addictions. In the saints we catch glimpses of our own holiness. We can see our own brokenness, our own violence, our own ability to destroy, and we can see our own sacredness, our own capacity to love and forgive. When we realised that we are both wrenched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way...
Zhikang
8:44 AM
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