[Dr. Eckleburg]

That's a good question. Beats me. Probably the same thing that sustains all atheists who have a job and get up in the morning and do that job. Habit. Inertia. Self-esteem. Worldly accolades.

But what we do know is that it was not her Christian faith that sustained her. She said she had lost her faith. She said she doubted God's existence. She said she questioned Christ.

For decades.

[Judith Anne]

That's a good question. Beats me. Probably the same thing that sustains all atheists who have a job and get up in the morning and do that job. Habit. Inertia. Self-esteem. Worldly accolades.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Mother Teresa, the atheist! That's a good one! Is that the official OPC position on Mother Teresa?

[D-fendr]

And yet she continued her work. She did not stop, did not stop praying, did not stop in her compassion for those whose lot was the worst. She lived what Christ asked of us all - and we don’t come close.

She continued thinking she had lost faith- felt it was renewed, then lost again. She wrote about it to her superiors and asked that the letters be destroyed less “people will think more of me—less of Jesus.”

Faith to continue when you believe you’ve lost faith, faith that it will return. Faith that your purpose is to do what Jesus did.

What sustains us on this path even when we feel we have lost our faith - what else can be evidence of the deepest faith, to continue on on the same path?

Faith.