Who can save poor Terresa???? She is too poor for a wrong pick of a liar faith of christ.?

Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith By DAVID VAN BIEMA

Thu Aug 23, 12:05 PM ET

Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear.

- Mother Teresa to the Rev. Michael Van Der Peet, September 1979

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On Dec. 11, 1979, Mother Teresa, the ''Saint of the Gutters,'' went to Oslo. Dressed in her signature blue-bordered sari and shod in sandals despite below-zero temperatures, the former Agnes Bojaxhiu received that ultimate worldly accolade, the Nobel Peace Prize. In her acceptance lecture, Teresa, whose Missionaries of Charity had grown from a one-woman folly in Calcutta in 1948 into a global beacon of self-abnegating care, delivered the kind of message the world had come to expect from her. ''It is not enough for us to say, 'I love God, but I do not love my neighbor,''' she said, since in dying on the Cross, God had ''[made] himself the hungry one - the naked one - the homeless one.'' Jesus' hunger, she said, is what ''you and I must find'' and alleviate. She condemned abortion and bemoaned youthful drug addiction in the West. Finally, she suggested that the upcoming Christmas holiday should remind the world ''that radiating joy is real'' because Christ is everywhere - ''Christ in our hearts, Christ in the poor we meet, Christ in the smile we give and in the smile that we receive.''