Mother Angelica Quotes

American - Educator

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 Hate Memory

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.

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God Beach Future I Am

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

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God Eye Grass Himself

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

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Nature God Me Quality

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.

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Good Thoughts Good Things Words

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.

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Pride Hatred Walls More

A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.

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Reality Invisible Sign Sacrament

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

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Beauty God Angel Intelligence

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.

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Myself Failure God Perspective

Every retarded, deformed, crippled, handicapped, or senile person, who has been baptized, is a powerhouse for good in a wicked world by reason of the grace of God that dwells in his soul.

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Good God World Soul

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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

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.

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Mirror I Am Reflection See

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.

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Life God Moment Like

Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment.

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Hope Time Man Disappointment

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.

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Friendship Love Man Satisfied

Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to 'hoods.'

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Loving Next Living Only

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.'

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Time People Thinking Some People

Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, accepting the criticism of the Pharisees, so the destitute would never feel deserted. He was loyal to his father, accomplishing his will even unto death.

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Father Death Knowledge Feel

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

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Good God Thoughts Soul

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

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Family World Neighbor Bring

Love is an emotional feeling on a human level and a faith experience on a supernatural level.

Mother Angelica

Love Faith Experience Love Is

The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation.

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Life God Best Wisdom

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

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.

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Failure Strength Time Man

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

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 Strength Me Respect

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