Mother Angelica
When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence.Collection: Friendship
We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.Collection: Science
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.Collection: Friendship
God's grace is at its best in weakness, so we need never fear our weakness. In fact, these weaknesses will determine in what way we shall glorify God for all eternity.Collection: Fear
Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.Collection: Society
Obedience is a strong virtue, capable of making me master of my emotions by giving me more strength to conquer my pride as I submit to those above me out of respect for their God-given authority and those below me out of love.Collection: Strength
When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone that I am desperately trying to be patient.Collection: Patience
When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.Collection: Anger
My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.Collection: Failure
Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.Collection: Positive
I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers.Collection: Future
We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.Collection: Computers
I must not permit the evil capabilities of human nature to sour my faith in the tremendous good that is possible despite the frailty of that nature.Collection: Faith
The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation.Collection: Wisdom
When our neighbor's personality possesses harsh qualities, we show our love by not voluntarily provoking those qualities in any way. Past experience shows us what upsets a person, so in their presence we are careful not to do or say those things that cause anger. We are self-effacing.Collection: Anger
I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.Collection: Morning
Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.Collection: Forgiveness
We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself.Collection: Religion
You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.Collection: Jesus
Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.Collection: Love Is
Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.Collection: Love You
If you want to be holy, if you seek meaning in your life, start looking into your own life and attacking your pride in all of its many forms. God will give you extraordinary light and the ultimate reward of holiness. For your holiness relies not on what you do, but on what you allow God to do through you. Have courage. God will perfect you.Collection: Pride
Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.Collection: Wimps
Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live.Collection: Believe
Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead.Collection: Men
Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.Collection: Ridiculous
God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.Collection: Different
It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.Collection: Today
If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.Collection: Sides
Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.Collection: Air
Everything starts with one person... I don't care if you're 5 or 105, God from all eternity chose you to be where you are, at this time in history, to change the world.Collection: World
I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.Collection: Dying
We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.Collection: Jesus
We are all called to be great saints, don't miss the opportunity.Collection: Opportunity
You want to do something for the Lord...do it. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though youre shaking in your boots, youre scared to death -- take the first step forward. The grace comes with that one step and you get the grace as you step. Being afraid is not a problem; its doing nothing when you feel afraid.Collection: Grace
Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigger than you, so God has room to operate. I want you to get good ideas, crazy ideas, extravagant ideas. Nothing is too much for The Lord to do - accent on 'The Lord'.Collection: Dream
Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.Collection: Pain
God always forgives when you are totally repentant and you desire to change. He forgives... and He never gets tired of forgiving. Never. You may get tired asking. I hope not. He never, never tires of forgiving. Never.Collection: Tired
We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.Collection: Chosen
God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.Collection: Giving
God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.Collection: Order
Jesus is giving you such an opportunity to be holy, holier than all the saints that have ever been, because the world is in such need of shining lives, beacons to see by.Collection: Jesus
I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion.Collection: Struggle
Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.Collection: Imagination
Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.Collection: Soul
The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this world. This Divine preparation opens our souls to the working and pruning of the Father.Collection: Jesus
Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.Collection: Men
Remember, vote for life. It may be your own.Collection: May
Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.Collection: Heart
God does awesome things with us.Collection: Doe