Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach. Mother Angelica More Quotes by Mother Angelica More Quotes From Mother Angelica Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end. Mother Angelica catholic ends love-is Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves. Mother Angelica telling-the-truth want love-you 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 light pride giving 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 degrees names men 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 devil believe commitment Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement. Mother Angelica wimps holiness requirements 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 miraculous ridiculous gods-will God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking. Mother Angelica different want world 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 grateful hate jesus 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 regret heart jesus 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 poverty speak today If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right. Mother Angelica ifs christianity sides 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 dying done might 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 boots grace needs 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 care eternity world We are all called to be great saints, don't miss the opportunity. Mother Angelica saint missing opportunity 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 crazy dream ideas 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 pain eye suffering 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 forgiving tired desire God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something. Mother Angelica slot-machines machines giving
