Mother Angelica Quotes
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Remember, vote for life. It may be your own.
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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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God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.
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Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.
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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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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'.
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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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If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.
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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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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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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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Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.
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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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God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.
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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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Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.
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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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Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.
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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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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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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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Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.
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We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.
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God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.