Mother Teresa on Loving Others Until It Hurts
I came across Mother Teresa’s Nobel Lecture on 11 December 1979. Below is a portion of it on the topic on loving others. For the full lecture, proceed here.
“And we read that in the Gospel very clearly – love as I have loved you – as I love you – as the Father has loved me, I love you – and the harder the Father loved him, he gave him to us, and how much we love one another, we, too, must give each other until it hurts. It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don’t love your neighbour. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live. And so this is very important for us to realise that love, to be true, has to hurt. It hurt Jesus to love us, it hurt him.”
December 5, 2011 at 4:15 pm
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