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1994 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington

Mother Teresa was a true woman of God. She was a Roman Catholic nun who dedicated her life to helping the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying first in India and then in many other countries around the world. By the 1970's she was recognised world wide and she was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work*.

 

If you were to take one look at the lady you could tell she did not have many earthly possessions. She seemed to have truly take the, 'Sell all of your possessions and follow me.' catch phrase literally. Mother Teresa had nothing yet she still gave her everything, to her cause.

 

Mother Teresa traveled all around the world to give speeches and serve others. One year she was invited to give a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. So on On February 3, 1994 Mother Teresa traveled to the United States to share a message from God to thousands of Americans gathered, among the audience was the then President of the United States of America, Bill Clinton, first lady Hillary Clinton and their daughter Chelsea Clinton. Before taking stage Mother Teresa insisted on seeing President Clinton privately. She was told that would be impossible, but she refused to take the podium until she spoke with the president alone. The president was then brought to her.

 

And when she stood before the most powerful man in all of the world who had everything at the tips of his finger, this little sawed off woman from the Republic of Macedonia who had nothing but the close on her back! shook he bony little finger at the most powerful man in the world and said, "ONE DAY AMERICA, will be JUDGED according to how she treats HER CHILDREN... Both the BORN and the UN-BORN!" And all the president of the United States of America could do was hang his head in SHAME!

 

Mother Teresa then came out from back stage and gave one of the most powerful pro-life speeches of all time. The entire speech can be found in the book, "So...Help me God" by Forrest Church, here are some of the highlights, "I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself."

 

She continued, "And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even His life to love us. So, the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love, that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts."

 

"By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.

 

"And, by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion."

 

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion."

 

"Many people are very, very concerned with the children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about all the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions who are being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today - abortion which brings people to such blindness."

 

"If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world."

 

"From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for. God bless you!"

 

At the end of her speech the crowed gave Mother Teresa a standing ovation and clapped profusely. Apparently thirst overwhelmed Bill and Hillary Clinton at that very moment because wile everyone else went in an uproar of applause the Clinton's just sucked on their water bottles. Later when questioned, about Bill's meeting with Mother Teresa Bill's only response was, 'I can not argue with a life that had been so well lived.'

 

 

*When Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prise it was actually an honor. Today the award is becoming a laughing matter. Which you will read more about latter.

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