QUOTATION: Prayer

I think we look for excuses not to pray and not to ponder. We can find them by the droves. But we don't have any excuse.

--Mother Angelica

QUOTATION: The Apostles

The apostles wouldn’t pass the seminary today. Heck, I doubt if they’d make it past the psychological screening.

--Mother Angelica

QUOTATION: Doing God's Will

There are lots of things you can do, but you’ve got to do what God has asked you to do—and stick with it.

--Mother Angelica

QUOTATION: Speak the Truth

It’s your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But the truth must be in us.

--Mother Angelica

QUOTATION: Being Pastoral

We hide the truth from people to be "pastoral"...I don't think leading someone to hell is pastoral.

--Mother Angelica

QUOTATION: Faith

If you are walking with God, He never shows you the end. It’s always a walk of faith.

--Mother Angelica

QUOTATION: Your Value

No matter what anybody says to you or about you, it is nothing compared to what you are in God's Eyes.

--Mother Angelica

QUOTATION: Fear of Hurting Feelings

You want people to suffer forever in hell but you don't want to hurt their feelings now? What kind of love is that?

--Mother Angelica

QUOTATION: God's Blessings

We have a tendency to think that if we love God, and He loves us, He's going to bless us with the 'good things of life.' And He does. The problem lies in our definition of the 'good things of life.' Trials are sometimes as much of a good thing as new car or health.

--Mother Angelica

QUOTATION: Accepting God's Will

When you accept God’s will in every aspect of your life you will find God providing with strength, courage, and a dignity that resounds to the heavens. It resounds to the heavens because it doesn’t have far to go. Heaven, you see, is suddenly in your heart.

--Mother Angelica, Mother Angelica’s Answers Not Promises

QUOTATION: The Christian Paradox

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, His Pain Like Mine

QUOTATION: Being Christian

You're not a Christian unless you're a thorn in somebody's side.

--Mother Angelica

QUOTATION: The Temptation to Despair

Any temptation to despair is not of God, and you need to remember that the enemy wants you to despair. Know your enemy. He's not handing you roses, he's handing you hell. So be careful of any kind of despair. Those temptations come directly from the liar, the enemy who was a liar from the beginning. He cannot give truth. He cannot give beauty. He can't give you anything that is good. He wants to take that good away from you. The only thing he can do to a human being is to encourage him to despair -- what a waste of time it is to listen to a liar. Listen to the Lord, pray for the grace to overcome the temptation, and keep moving.

-- Mother Angelica