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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.

Mother Angelica

Forgiveness Passion Memory Hate

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

Mother Angelica

Beauty God Angel Intelligence

When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.

Mother Angelica

Pride More Walls Behind

I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers.

Mother Angelica

God Future I Am Beach

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

Mother Angelica

Time Small Will Temptation

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

Mother Angelica

Good Thoughts God My Soul

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

Mother Angelica

Nature Me God Quality

Family life is the backbone of mankind, and that life is dependent upon mutual giving, sharing, and receiving from each other. It entails the proper use of each other's successes and failures for mutual up-building.

Mother Angelica

Life Family Sharing Giving

Men climb mountains, scale heights, venture into the unexplored to prove to other men it can be done.

Mother Angelica

Men Mountains Climb Done

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.

Mother Angelica

Love Friendship Man Satisfied

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

Mother Angelica

Morning Like Fame Mist

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.

Mother Angelica

Life Heart Humble Look

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.

Mother Angelica

Life God Sometimes Direction

We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself.

Mother Angelica

Work Happiness Best Goals

A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.

Mother Angelica

Reality Invisible Sign Visible

It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight.

Mother Angelica

Good God Great Understand

My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.

Mother Angelica

Myself Failure God Perspective

Obedience is a strong virtue, capable of making me master of my emotions by giving me more strength to conquer my pride as I submit to those above me out of respect for their God-given authority and those below me out of love.

Mother Angelica

Love Me Strength Respect

God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.

Mother Angelica

God Eye Grass Insect

Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian.

Mother Angelica

Life God Christian Will

I am a mirror to my neighbor, and in that mirror, he must see a reflection of Jesus. If that mirror is cloudy or distorted, Jesus' reflection will be so vague it will hardly be seen.

Mother Angelica

Mirror I Am Reflection Cloudy

Love has been defined, analyzed, explained and excused. It has been the cause of wars, feuds, heroism, martyrdom, inordinate passion, and beautiful friendships. It pulls two people of opposite temperaments together into a married state and permits them to live happily. It makes friends understand each other without the necessity of words.

Mother Angelica

Love Beautiful Passion Together

The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man.

Mother Angelica

Failure Strength Time Man

Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame.

Mother Angelica

Memories Pain Past Blame

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

Mother Angelica

Life Love God Soul

There are many who are not guilty of doing anything wrong but very guilty of sins of omission - the things they neglect to do - the good things - the kind, thoughtful words, compassionate thoughts and hopeful attitudes they might have had towards their neighbor.

Mother Angelica

Good Thoughts Words Good Things

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