Q. How did she answer that oft-asked question: why do bad things happen to good people?
A. The question we're addressing now is probably the most difficult, trying question — impossible question — of the whole world. I don't think I or Mother Teresa can succeed where angels have feared to tread and where great philosophers have devoted their whole lives to trying to answer that very question. It's a question that one doesn't, I think, answer in linear logic. It's a question that one answers with one's life. Words or thoughts definitely fall short. One of the things Mother Teresa says to address this, one of her lovelier answers: ''God is still love. He is still loving the world. Today God loves the world so much that he gives you and he gives me to love the world, to be his love and compassion.''
A. The question we're addressing now is probably the most difficult, trying question — impossible question — of the whole world. I don't think I or Mother Teresa can succeed where angels have feared to tread and where great philosophers have devoted their whole lives to trying to answer that very question. It's a question that one doesn't, I think, answer in linear logic. It's a question that one answers with one's life. Words or thoughts definitely fall short. One of the things Mother Teresa says to address this, one of her lovelier answers: ''God is still love. He is still loving the world. Today God loves the world so much that he gives you and he gives me to love the world, to be his love and compassion.''
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