60 Mother Angelica Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mother Angelica

American Educator

God Life Love Man People Will

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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 Fades Like Mist Perish Fame Ask Riches Away

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. Mother Angelica

Hope Peace Joy Darkness Light Contentment Pain Christian Desolation Possesses Consolation Paradox He Sorrow Exile Experiences Turmoil Fulfillment Lives

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. Mother Angelica

People live, work, walk, play, shop, study, and eat with other people. There are few desert dwellers who live alone without depending in some way on people. Mother Angelica

Work Alone People Walk Few Live Other Way Eat Some Study Without Shop Depending Who Desert Play

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

Death Future Dark Seems Bleak Like Times Tunnel Traveled

We must look at the personality of Jesus and see him under various circumstances - circumstances not unlike our own - and then praise him by imitating him to the best of our ability. Mother Angelica

Best Personality Own Imitating Our Unlike Circumstances Must Ability See Various Look Him Praise Then Jesus

When our neighbor's personality possesses harsh qualities, we show our love by not voluntarily provoking those qualities in any way. Past experience shows us what upsets a person, so in their presence we are careful not to do or say those things that cause anger. We are self-effacing. Mother Angelica

Love Anger Experience Personality Cause Past Our Way Say Our Love Harsh Those Neighbor Possesses Voluntarily Qualities Provoking Person Any Upsets Us Show Shows Things Presence Careful

Jesus asks me to go to him when I am overburdened. He did not promise to take away those burdens, for I must carry mine as he carried his. Mother Angelica

Me Mine Those Carried Promise Carry Must Take He Him Am Go His Did Burdens Ask Away Jesus

To God, all things are present; there is no past or future - it is all now. Mother Angelica

Future God Past All Things Now Things Present

Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be. Mother Angelica

Life Soul Experience People Confused Christian Every Further Paradox Life Experiences Seems Most Becomes Experiences Holiness Who Away Harder Jesus

We are so accustomed to love on a human level that we find loving God for Himself either impossible or beyond our capabilities. We tend to love those who appeal to us, render us a service, or are good to us. In the degree they perform these various services, we love them. Mother Angelica

Love Service God Good Impossible Degree Our Those Find Various Tend Perform Beyond Render Himself Accustomed Human Either Loving Capabilities To Love Them Us Who Appeal Level Services

Jesus made Himself available to everyone. Unlike former prophets and the religious men of His day, who often kept themselves aloof, Jesus was easy to approach and always ready to give his help. Mother Angelica

No creature, not even the most exalted angel, can understand God or have perfect knowledge of Him. Mother Angelica

God Knowledge Angel Exalted Perfect Most Him Understand Even Creature

God's word is always effective and produces whatever it expresses. My words, on the contrary, cannot create anything; I can only change what already is into something else. Mother Angelica

God Change Words Word Whatever Else On The Contrary Something Something Else Only Always Effective Contrary Anything Cannot Create Produces Expresses

From the time of Adam and Eve, man has tried to escape suffering in any form. Mother Angelica

Time Man Suffering Tried Escape Any Form Eve Adam Adam And Eve

When man invents or produces anything of any value, volumes are written on the subject. Mother Angelica

Man Value Volumes Written Subject Any Anything Produces

Jesus did not always like the Apostles' way of acting, but by adapting himself to their temperament, praying for them to his father, giving them a holy example of conduct, he loved them, and that love changed them. Mother Angelica

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