Top 80 Matthew Kelly Quotes
#1. Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.
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#2. The reason is that for so many years he has been developing a deep reserve of internal calm, so deep that the external unrest cannot disturb it. Interior calm gives birth to calm action.
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#3. Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
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#4. Love is a choice, love is an act of will, you can choose to love.
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#5. Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.
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#6. Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.
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#7. Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.
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#8. It would be lovely if we could gather up all the evil people and put them together on one island, leaving them to self-destruct in their collective sinfulness.
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#9. If I spend my life preoccupied with me and my own happiness, I will live life missing the deepest joy that God has for me. When
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#10. It is perhaps the result of a culture that prefers us to be passive. The passive me says: "Feed me"; "Entertain me"; "Hold me"; "Love me"; "Listen to me"; "Tell me I matter"; "Make me a priority"; "Don't make me think too much or work too hard"; and so
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#11. Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.
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#12. Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.
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#13. THIS YEAR CATHOLIC CHARITIES WILL PROVIDE 2.2 MILLION FREE MEALS TO THE HUNGRY AND THE NEEDY OF CHICAGO. WE DON'T ASK THEM IF THEY ARE CATHOLIC - WE JUST ASK THEM IF THEY ARE HUNGRY. REDISCOVER CATHOLICISM.
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#15. In the absence of discipline, man must content himself with superficialities and mediocrity.
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#16. To be truly intimate with another person, is to share every aspect of yourself with that person.
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#17. It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.
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#18. When holiness emerges in any place and time, all men and women of good will are inspired.
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#19. When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.
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#20. Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
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#21. Never pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation. There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion of them go to bed every night starving for one honest word of appreciation.
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#22. You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely
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#23. When we hear our talents calling us forth, we hear the voice of God inviting us to fully participate in the adventure of salvation.
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#24. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.
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#25. Working halfheartedly may reap you the same financial compensation as working with all your heart and soul, but it will slowly begin to rot your heart and mind and soul.
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#26. Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life's about how you love and hurt the people close to you. Life is about how you love and hurt the people who just cross your path for a moment. Life is about love.
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#27. The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance.
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#28. If you want twenty minutes of quality time with someone you love, schedule three or four hours with him or her one afternoon, and chances are, somewhere in the middle of that three or four hours you will have your twenty minutes of quality time. When
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#29. We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity at this moment in history.
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#30. Every journey to something is a journey away from something
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#31. Sacraments. I pray to gather density to survive and
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#32. On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.
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#33. Some books find us at just the right time in our lives and those books change our lives forever. I hope this is that kind of book for you.
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#34. The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves
not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.
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#35. Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.
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#36. If we will walk humbly with our God, He will lead us by the hand to exactly who and what we need, to those people, things, and experiences He has designed and intended for us, and this alone will be the cause of our deep fulfillment and happiness.
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#37. Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.
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#38. A priest once asked Mother Teresa if she would pray that God would give him clarity in a choice he had to make. She told him, God may never give you clarity. All you can do is trust.
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#39. The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.
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#40. The measure of your life will be the measure of your courage.
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#41. Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.
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#42. The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.
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#45. We all die, and yet, so often we conduct our lives as if we were going to live forever. If you knew you were going to die one year from today, how would you change your life?
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#46. It has been my experience that nothing changes a person's life more than the discovery of one solitary truth: There is a meaning and purpose to life. More specifically: There is a meaning and purpose to your life.
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#47. God of deep waters and infinite riches, challenge me to go where I fear, to do what is difficult and what I thought could never be done. Push me to go to the deep waters of life and cast my net wide, for I put all my hope, trust and faith in you.
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#48. God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.
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#49. The way we see the world determines the way we live our lives
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#50. Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.
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#53. If you don't break from the tensions of daily living, they will break you.
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#54. Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness.
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#55. The Prayer Process is a seven-step tool designed to help us develop a routine of prayer, and the routine within the routine.
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#56. If you give your body a choice, it will always take the easy way out. Your body lies. It tells you it cannot when it can.
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#57. Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.
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#58. This is the will of God: that you be saints. (1 Thessalonians 4:3)
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#59. In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.
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#60. We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
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#61. Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.
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#62. There are some questions that we all ask ourselves in different ways: Who am I? Who is God? What am I here for? What matters most? What matters least? What are my unique talents and abilities? What will my contribution be? What happens when we die?
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#63. When our children know more about teen pop idols than they do about Jesus Christ, isn't it time for us to reassess the place and priority our faith has in our lives?
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#64. They simply try to be all they can be, here and now, and that brings with it a happiness all its own.
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#65. Work-life balance, work-life effectiveness, personal and professional satisfaction - or whatever you choose to call it - is not an entitlement or benefit. Your company cannot give it to you. You have to create it for yourself. You are personally responsible for living the best life you can.
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#66. The way we consume information leads us to think less and less about more and more. We spend much of our time fixated on secondary questions (usually related to controversial and sensational issues) and very little time exploring the primary questions about our brief stay here on earth.
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#67. Wherever you find excellence, you find continuous learning. They go hand in hand. Wherever you find that continuous learning is missing, you find mediocrity.
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#68. Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.
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#70. If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.
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#71. We become what we celebrate. What are you celebrating?
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#72. All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.
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#73. You have been told what is good and what Yahweh wants of you. Only this, that you live justly, love tenderly, and walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)
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#74. The abuse of a good does not diminish the good of a good
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#75. Our lives is almost always a result of those things we habitually think and those things we habitually do. Life is the fruit of discipline, or lack of it. We are our habits. For example, you cannot separate Tiger
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#76. Satisfaction comes from emptying ourselves into things.
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#77. When you voice your disagreement, begin by talking about what you have in common with the person you are arguing with. Too often we rush to judgment, race to argue, and overlook all the common ground we share.
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#78. You cannot be healthy and happy without discipline. If you want to measure the level of happiness in your life, just measure the level of discipline in your life. You will never have more happiness than you have discipline.
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#79. Dedicate yourself above all else to becoming the-best-version-of-yourself. It is the best thing you can do for your spouse, your children, your friends, your colleagues, your employees, your employer, your church, your nation, the human family, and yourself.
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#80. We are not here to solve the problems; the problems are here to solve us.
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