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Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.
Mother Angelica
Trust is what propels you forward. Optimism is what maintains momentum. Affection is what guides you to the conclusion.
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Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.
Mother Angelica
'Truth speakers care for you. Those who flatter themselves love only themselves.'
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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
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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
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Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.
Mother Angelica
'Sanctity is not for the faint of heart and the crucifixion is non-negotiable, darling, it's an absolute necessity.'
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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
Unless you are ready to attempt the absurd, God will not manifest the astounding. When you have God, you don't need to comprehend everything concerning it; just take action.
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God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.
Mother Angelica
God expects you to be in the world, but so unique from the world that you will alter it. Begin now.
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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
'Merely acknowledging the existence of a higher power is not enough. It requires us to modify our behavior and attitudes in order to truly demonstrate faith.'
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We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.
Mother Angelica
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Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.
Mother Angelica
Belief is standing with one foot on firm ground, the other treading uncertainly, and a sense of trepidation in the gut.
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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
"Do not wait until it is too late to make amends - offer mercy, show forbearance, be thankful, revere Jesus and the Virgin Mary, and accept the Lord's plan without delay."
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If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.
Mother Angelica
If you don't create any friction, you aren't practicing Christianity properly.
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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
It is your responsibility to express veracity, and each person can accept it or reject it. However, honesty must be within us. We exist in a dearth of sincerity presently.
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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
I'm not apprehensive of failure...I'm terrified of passing away and having the Lord tell me, 'Angelica, this is what you could have accomplished had you taken a chance.'
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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
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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
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We are all called to be great saints, don't miss the opportunity.
Mother Angelica
We are all summoned to be extraordinary holy people, don't let this chance pass you by.
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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
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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
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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
Sometimes my most trying day - one crammed with anguish and misery - in the eyes of God, is my finest day if I've confronted it jubilantly and I've endured it with affection.
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God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.
Mother Angelica
'God is not a vending machine. We don't seek from him; we offer to him.'
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We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.
Mother Angelica
We were preordained by God to be here.
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God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.
Mother Angelica
God oversees the entire Cosmos and still has time to look out for each of us individually.
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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
Jesus is offering you a unique chance to be pious, more hallowed than all the canonized that have ever existed, due to the planet needing radiant existences, guides to observe by.
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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
I surmise that perishing must be akin to coming to an end and being able to retrospect the tribulations of life, realizing that God was by your side all along.
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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
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Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.
Mother Angelica
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Remember, vote for life. It may be your own.
Mother Angelica
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Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.
Mother Angelica
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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
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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
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God does awesome things with us.
Mother Angelica