Mother Angelica Quotes & Sayings

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

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'. — Mother Angelica

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. — Mother Angelica

Remember, vote for life. It may be your own. — Mother Angelica

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. — Mother Angelica

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. — Mother Angelica

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

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

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

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

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. — Mother Angelica

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 — Mother Angelica

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. — Mother Angelica

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. — Mother Angelica

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

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. — Mother Angelica

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

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. — Mother Angelica

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. — Mother Angelica

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. — Mother Angelica

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

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. — Mother Angelica

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

God does awesome things with us. — Mother Angelica

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

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

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. — Mother Angelica

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. — Mother Angelica

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

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. — Mother Angelica

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. — Mother Angelica