Mother Angelica Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.

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.

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

God does awesome things with us.

When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.

When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence.

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.

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.

Jesus wants us to trust him to take care of all our yesterdays and tomorrows.

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.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land.

Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.

I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.

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.

To see a friend who has suffered the loss of all things begin again with trust and love, gives us strength to continue on.

At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.

We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.