Something Beautiful for God

Name: Something Beautiful for God
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
ISBN: 9781470834333

Author: Malcolm Muggeridge

Narrator: Leonard Muggeridge;Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged: 2 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 02/14/2014

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Religious Nonfiction

Synopsis

This is the work that introduced Mother Teresa of Calcutta to the Western world. Malcolm Muggeridge paints a profound and moving portrait of a lady whose love for Christ and the needy has deeply impacted many a lifeincluding the authors. For me, says Muggeridge, Mother Teresa of Calcutta embodies Christian love in action. Her face shines with the love of Christ on which her whole life is centered, and her words carry that message to a world which never needed it so much.

About Malcolm Muggeridge

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) was a world-renowned philosopher, humorist, newspaper editor, and university rector. He is best known to American audiences for his book Something Beautiful for God and for his frequent appearances on Firing Line. A tart-tongued agnostic, he was fascinated by the idea of faith and eventually converted to Catholicism. His enduring appeal is often compared to that of his compatriots G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Miska on September 10, 2009

"Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted; to understand rather than to be understood; to love rather than to be loved; for it is by forgetting self that one finds; it is by dying that one awakens to eternal life. Amen."......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on October 04, 2011

When asked by Muggeridge about giving the poor "things they needed," Mother Theresa answers, "It is not very often things they need. What they need much more is what we offer them. In these twenty years of work amongst people, I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is th......more

Goodreads review by Ramón on May 03, 2020

A really interesting book about the encounter of the author with Mother Teres. Inspiring. This kind of books help me to see how selfish I am and how much I need conversion. Mother Teresa pray for us......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on March 28, 2021

This is one of those books that sort of fell off the shelf and landed in my hands. I found it at the Pilgrim in Calgary and have read it a few times now. It introduced me to the life and work of the BBC TV personality and writer Malcolm Muggeridge. In part a biography of Mother Teresa's life, Muggerid......more

Goodreads review by Ruth on May 11, 2024

Mother Theresa was amazing…but this ‘biography’ just was too all over the place for me to even begin to process.......more