Quotes from Mother Angelica

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.

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

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.

Mary's life was a perfect imitation of Jesus. She was humble, hidden, sorrowful and afflicted, but she also knew joys that never entered the heart of man. She is all things to all men that she might understand their failings, though she failed not.

Jesus was happy when people acknowledged his dignity and saddened when they did not, but he never sought their esteem or regard.

The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.

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.

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

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

The heart of Jesus is compassionate and understanding. It has felt the sting of ingratitude, and when my heart suffers from that same offense, I can turn to him, and he understands my feelings.

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.'

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