Quotes from Mother Angelica

God cannot forgive a sinner who does not acknowledge his sin.

Many of us use God's love like the manna in the desert. We take what we need for particular situations and then go our own way - thinking we can handle other situations ourselves.

Jesus told us to learn from him how to be meek and humble of heart. We must look at his life if we are to have any concept of what humility is all about.

Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.

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

I must not permit the evil capabilities of human nature to sour my faith in the tremendous good that is possible despite the frailty of that nature.

St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten anyone. He realized that when the Christian saw the blessings and grace that poured upon him after his trials, he would gain courage to suffer in his turn.

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

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

Every Christian is important - important to God, to the world, and to the kingdom.

Religious life is an encounter with the living God. Sometimes that encounter is preceded by a kind of soul-searching agony that tries desperately not to hear, runs in the opposite direction, and frantically tries to reason itself out of answering the invitation.

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

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.

Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak.

The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation.

Mary's life was a perfect imitation of Jesus. She was humble, hidden, sorrowful and afflicted, but she also knew joys that never entered the heart of man. She is all things to all men that she might understand their failings, though she failed not.

Jesus was happy when people acknowledged his dignity and saddened when they did not, but he never sought their esteem or regard.

The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.

Every moment of life is like a sacrament in which we can receive God. It is a channel through which God speaks to us, forms us, and directs us.

I must listen as God speaks to my soul through good thoughts, inspirations, and intuitions.

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

The heart of Jesus is compassionate and understanding. It has felt the sting of ingratitude, and when my heart suffers from that same offense, I can turn to him, and he understands my feelings.

Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be fully understood, they will not accept. We call these people 'intellectuals.'

I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.