Mother Teresa showed an unbelievable quantity and depth of faith in that she was able to continue her work despite feeling her emptiness, loneliness, and hypocrisy. This makes Mother Teresa patient, persistent, humble, and, above all, human.

Everyone at one time or another if they have
faith will doubt in it too.I don't think for
a moment,she would have been able to continue
her selfless work for the poor and sick if she
doubted her faith and God for 40 years.
Everytime we suffer or hear of others suffering,
we tend to blame God but it is we who often
cause the suffering.­Religious or not trying to
help people less fortunate will give us inner
peace.For many of us I think it is better to
give than to receive.If when we die we will
have no regrets then dying is not going to be
as bad as we thought.I think she died knowing
she had done her best and was at peace.

No life engaged in deep spiritual inquiry can avoid doubt, even despair.

The "headline" sting of this is an implicit "Mother Theresa didn't believe in God".

The reality is "Mother Theresa herself doubted in God's promise to us all, but she kept acting as if it were real".

I am not a Roman Catholic. In Revolutionary America, my beliefs would not have raised an eyebrow in the Revolutionary Congress. Today I am probably considered by religious conservatives to be little different from a Communist (while I consider them to be little different from the Taliban).

But I can't sign on to the sensational implication of the headline.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAJ2neuouYI

Compassion - Dalai Lama, Muhammad Ali, Thomas Merton

there are mere moments in every spiritual life in which we indulge in darkness, but this is for a very deep reason -- to investigate whether the grace of God is all-expansive and even illuminates the shadows of Hell.

there is more to God than eternity. you shall know God in the insterices of His "abodes" : love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. it is neither permanent nor bound by the dimensions of space and time. the nature of God and your own mind must be experienced by yourself directly in serene contemplation.