From her Third World perspective caring for the poor of India for sixty years, this is what Mother Teresa wrote about the West:
"People today are hungry for love, for understanding love, which is ... the only answer to loneliness and great poverty. That is why [our sisters] are able to go to the needy west, countries like England and American and Australia, where there is no hunger for bread. But there people are suffering from terrible loneliness, terrible despair, terrible hatred, feeling unwanted, feeling helpless, feeling hopeless. They have forgotten how to smile, they have forgotten the beauty of the human touch. They are forgetting what is human love."
Desmond Doig
Mother Teresa, Her People and Her Work
London: Collins, 1976, p. 159
No comments:
Post a Comment