Quotes from Matthew Kelly

Some people come into our lives for only a season, but their fingerprints remain all over our lives until the end

catch so many fish that their nets begin to tear and they need help from fishermen in other boats to haul in the catch. Over and over in life, God challenges us to abandon our doubts and fears and cast our nets into the deep waters of the spiritual life. It is never convenient, it is almost always difficult, and it is sometimes quite painful, but if we heed the Lord's direction we will always bring in a huge catch. Don't be afraid of the deep places.

The very nature of love is transformative. Love is the most powerful agent of change in the universe. We shouldn't fall in love; we should rise in love. Love shouldn't cause us to be some-lesser-version-of-ourselves; love should inspire and challenge us to become the-best-version-of-ourselves. Life is about love, and what we choose to love can transform us for better or for worse.

The point is our actions can tip the balance between hope and despair.

If you sense that something is missing in your life, stop ignoring it. Start paying attention to it. God is trying to tell you something.

Hope is not merely a wish that something good might happen—it is the firm confidence and desire that the promises of God will be fulfilled.

Resistance will tell you that the problems are too many and that you will never make a difference. Ignore it. Resistance is a liar.

If you have ever been on the receiving end of carlessness, you know it changes you.

Take some small action. Resistance hates action.

Every moment is just another chance to turn it all around. It's not too late, and that is a truly wonderful thing.

We become more cautious with people, we are gentler with others, and we give them the benefit of the doubt, because we don't want to be on the giving end of carelessness.

They simply try to be all they can be, here and now, and that brings with it a happiness all its own.

Allow the ordinary to heal you.

we became the books we read.

Be gentle with the people who cross your path. If someone is grumpy or rude, if someone makes a mistake or does something wrong, give her the benefit of the doubt. You never know what she is carrying around inside.

There is a way to acknowledge the great suffering of others without diminishing our own suffering.

Resistance loves keeping us busy with anything but the one thing that will most help us grow.

Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. The other things on the face of the earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for which he is created. Hence, man is to make use of them in as far as they help him in the attainment of his end, and he must rid himself of them in as far as they prove a hindrance to him.

The future of your organization and the potential of your employees are intertwined; their destines are linked." - Matthew Kelly, The Dream Manager

There is enough time today to carry out everything God wants me to.

We build our lives one choice at a time.

The employees now things about our business that we don't. We should do a survey and ask them why they think so many people come and go.

In the absence of discipline, man must content himself with superficialities and mediocrity.

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.