In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity, as reported in Jeremiah 31:31-34, every human being can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so may you be pleased to find here a variety of helps to the life of faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.
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Mother Teresa: "Do It Anyway"
The verses below reportedly were written on the wall of Mother
Teresa's home for children in Calcutta, India, and are widely
attributed to her.
Some sources say that the words below
were written on the wall in Mother Teresa's own room. In any case,
their association with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity
has made them popular worldwide, expressing as they do, the spirit in which
they lived their lives.
They seem to be based on a
composition originally by Kent Keith, but much of the second half has
been re-written in a more spiritual way. Both versions are shown below.
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1. The version found written on the
wall in Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta:
"Do It Anyway"
People are often unreasonable,
irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of
selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may
deceive you.
Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others
could destroy overnight.
Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some
may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be
forgotten.
Do good anyway.
Give the best you have,
and it will never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis,
it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
-this version is credited to Mother
Teresa
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2. The Original Version:
The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith
1.
People are illogical, unreasonable, and
self-centered.
Love them anyway.
2.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish
ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
3.
If you are successful, you win false friends and
true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
4.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
5.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
6.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas
can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
7.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8.
What you spend years building may be destroyed
overnight.
Build anyway.
9.
People really need help but may attack you if you
do help them.
Help people anyway.
10. Give the world the
best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
© 1968, 2001 Kent M. Keith
"The Paradoxical
Commandments" were written by Kent M. Keith in 1968 as part of a booklet
for student leaders.
In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity, as reported in Jeremiah 31:31-34, every human being can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so may you be pleased to find here a variety of helps to the life of faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.
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