Mother Angelica Quotes

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.

Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

We are all called to be great saints, don't miss the opportunity.

But the only thing that is important is, Am I loving God and growing holy every day?

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.

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.

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.

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

God does awesome things with us.

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

I am not afraid to fail, I am scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me.
'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trust me more'.

Remember, vote for life. It may be your own.

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.

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.

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you
what you want to hear love themselves.

God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.

We did not happen to be
we were chosen by God to exist.

greater good in this story - God sparing Joe from a fatal accident. But Joe has to depend on faith. If you realize that God is operating from the vantage point of eternity, and that His Plan for you concerns your life in the next world as well as this one, then you will be more attuned to Him. Then your humility

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.

God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.

If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.

God keeps the entire universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.