Mother Angelica Quotes & Sayings

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

#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. 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.

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

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.

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

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#15. Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.

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#16. 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.

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

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#18. God does awesome things with us.

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#19. 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.

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

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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